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| A moment’s patience is a ten-year’s comfort. Modern Greek. | 1 |
| An hour’s patience will procure a long period of rest. Arabian. | 2 |
| An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains. Dutch. | 3 |
| Abused patience turns to fury. | 4 |
| All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer. | 5 |
| At the bottom of patience is Heaven. Bornou. | 6 |
| Be patient and you shall have patient children. | 7 |
| Be patient toward all men. New Testament. | 8 |
| Bear patiently what thou sufferest by thine own fault. Dutch. | 9 |
| Beware of the fury of a patient man. Dryden. | 10 |
| Every misfortune is to be subdued by patience. | 11 |
| Every thing which is out of our power to amend becomes more supportable by patience. Horace. | 12 |
| Have patience, Cossack, thou wilt come to be a hetman. Russian. | 13 |
| He that can be patient finds his foe at his feet. Dutch. | 14 |
| He who endures with patience is a conqueror. Latin. | 15 |
| How poor are they that have not patience. Shakespeare. | 16 |
| Job was not so miserable in his sufferings as happy in his patience. | 17 |
| No remedy but patience. | 18 |
| None patient but the wise. | 19 |
| Patience abused becomes fury. Latin. | 20 |
| Patience and application will carry us through. | 21 |
| Patience and pusillanimity are two things. | 22 |
| Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. Chinese. | 23 |
| Patience and time accomplish more than force and violence. La Fontaine. | 24 |
| Patience devours the devil. German. | 25 |
| Patience is a bitter plant but it has sweet fruit. German. | 26 |
| Patience is a flower that grows not in every garden. | 27 |
| “Patience is a good plant, but it don’t grow in my garden,” said the hangman. German. | 28 |
| Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. Benjamin Disraeli. | 29 |
| Patience is a plaister for all sores. | 30 |
| Patience is good preaching. German. | 31 |
| Patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. Shakespeare. | 32 |
| Patience is so like fortitude, that she seems either her sister or her daughter. Aristotle. | 33 |
| Patience is sorrow’s salve. Churchill. | 34 |
| Patience is the armor and conquest of the godly. Charlotte Young. | 35 |
| Patience is the beggar’s virtue. Massinger. | 36 |
| Patience is the best buckler against affronts. | 37 |
| Patience is the door of joy. German. | 38 |
| Patience is the key of Paradise. Turkish. | 39 |
| Patience is the strongest of strong drinks, for it kills the giant Despair. Douglas Jerrold. | 40 |
| Patience is the virtue of asses. French. | 41 |
| Patience, money and time, bring all things to pass. | 42 |
| Patience must suffer pain. Dr. Johnson. | 43 |
| Patience opens all doors. | 44 |
| “Patience,” said the wolf to the ass. Italian. | 45 |
| Patience surpasses learning. Dutch. | 46 |
| Patience, time, and money overcome everything. Italian. | 47 |
| Patience under injuries invites new ones. Publius Syrus. | 48 |
| Patience with poverty is all a poor man’s remedy. | 49 |
| The herb patience does not grow in every man’s garden. | 50 |
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| The patient man is always at home. | 51 |
| The remedy for hard times is to have patience. Arabian. | 52 |
| The world is for him who has patience. Italian. | 53 |
| Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod. Shakespeare. | 54 |
| To wait and be patient soothes many a pang. Danish. | 55 |
| Verjuice with patience becomes wine, and the mulberry leaf becomes satin. Turkish. | 56 |
| What cannot be removed becomes lighter by patience. Horace. | 57 |
| Who has patience may get fat thrushes at a farthing apiece. Italian. | 58 |
| Who has patience sees his revenge. Italian. | 59 |
| With patience and time, the mulberry becomes a silk gown. Spanish. | 60 |
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