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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Patience

Patience under misfortunes is like opiates in a fever; tossing and tumbling only irritate the distemper.
—Anonymous

Patience is so like fortitude, that she seems either her sister or her daughter.
—Aristotle

Grisilde-like in patience.
—John Lydgate