Quote by Matthew Arnold
With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too

With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair. – Matthew Arnold

Other quotes by Matthew Arnold

People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style. – Matthew Arnold

Read Quote

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion. – Matthew Arnold

Category:
Growth
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Patience
category

You know, writing is really difficult, and it takes a real patience and a skill. I dont know if I have that. I admire it in others, so much, and I envy it. – Adam Scott

Category:
Patience

Beware of undertaking too much at the start. Be content with quite a little. Allow for accidents. Allow for human nature, especially your own. – Arnold Bennett

Category:
Patience

Beware the fury of a patient man. – John Dryden, Absolam and Achitophel, 1680

Category:
Patience

Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. – David Mallet

Category:
Patience

Random Quotes

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports. – Richard Burton

Category:
Friendship

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard. – Colin Powell

Category:
work

If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World. – Jean Baudrillard

Category:
Discovery

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. – George Eliot

Category:
power