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Quote by Joseph Addison
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losse

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. – Joseph Addison

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Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. – Joseph Addison

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Physick, for the most part, is nothing else but the Substitute of Exercise or Temperance. – Joseph Addison

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True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of ones self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions. – Joseph Addison

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It is strange that the years teach us patience that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. – Elizabeth Taylor

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Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. – Lord Chesterfield

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I think you can judge from somebodys actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, theres a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve. – George W. Bush

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You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience. – Stanislaw Lec

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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. – Joseph Brodsky

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Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work. – Mother Teresa

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By far the greatest part of those goods which are the objects of desire, are procured by labour and they may be multiplied, not in one country alone, but in many, almost without any assignable limit, if we are disposed to bestow the labour necessary to obtain them. – David Ricardo

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