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Wisdom about patience.
What people have learned about patience the hard way, and what the classics said about it first.
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From the library
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood: but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.