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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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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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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will. – Matthew Arnold

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It seems likely that many of the young who dont wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, dont have the patience to make art. – Pauline Kael

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A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other peoples patience. – John Updike

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One moment of patience may ward off great disaster. One moment of impatience may ruin a whole life. – Chinese Proverb

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