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Through patience a ruler can be persuaded, and a gentle tongue can break a bone.

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Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

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If a child lives with approval, he learns to live with himself.

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If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand

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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

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The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.

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Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

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The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.

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