Patience. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Patience


Patience is sorrow’s salve. Churchill.—Progress of Famine. Line 363.	1
Like Patience, gazing on king’s graves, and smiling Extremity out of act. Shakespeare.—Pericles, Act V. Scene 1.	2
’Tis for me to be patient; I am in adversity. Shakespeare.—Comedy of Errors, Act IV. Scene 4.	3
As patient as the female dove When that her golden couplets are disclosed. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act V. Scene 1.	4
Patience, and shuffle the cards. Cervantes.—Don Quixote.	5
On one hand ever gentle Patience sat, On whose calm bosom I reclined my head; And on the other silent Contemplation. Lillo.—Fatal Curiosity, Act I. Scene 2.	6
She pined in thought And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat, like Patience on a monument, Smiling at grief. Shakespeare.—Twelfth Night, Act II. Scene 4.	7
’Tis hard: but patience must endure, And soothe the woes it cannot cure. Francis’ Horace.—Ode XXIV. Book I. Line 31.	8
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? Shakespeare.—Othello, Act II. Scene 3.	9