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

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Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances. – Matthew Arnold

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With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden and the heat
Of the long day, and wish twere done.
Not till the hours of light return
All we have built as we discern. – Matthew Arnold

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Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength. – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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You have to find the peace and patience within yourself to be a model and an example to others and not judge. – Judith Light

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Our patience will achieve more than our force. – Edmund Burke

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Speaking from my experience as a person involved for a long time in building the European Union, it is important to have patience and efforts to build a community of nations. – Giorgio Napolitano

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You just cant get too focused on worrying about whats going to happen in the next quarter. You have to worry about where the business is headed long-term. – James Sinegal

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The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves most things, in fact, are better in the morning. – Lewis Thomas

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Only God can look at somebodys heart. – Joel Osteen

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Only one thing can conquer war – that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation. – Ludwig von Mises

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