William Shakespeare on Patience
1564–1616 England
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A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!
He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding.
Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
That which in mean men we entitle patience
Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
Richard II (1595)
I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.
King Lear (1608)
I doubt not then but innocence shall make
False accusation blush, and tyranny
Tremble at patience.
A drop of patience: but, alas, to make me
A fixed figure, for the time of scorn
To point his slow unmoving finger at!
Othello (1603)
She sat like patience on a monument
Smiling at grief.
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling
Extremity out of act.
How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Othello (1603)
Patience and sorrow strove
Who should express her goodliest. You have seen
Sunshine and rain at once: her smile and tears
Were like a better way.
King Lear (1608)
I will with patience hear, and find a time
Both meet to hear and answer such high things.
Till then, my noble friend, chew upon this.
Julius Cæsar (1599)
Had it pleas'd heaven
To try me with affliction * * *
I should have found in some place of my soul
A drop of patience.
Othello (1603)
My lord shall never rest:
I'll watch him, tame and talk him out of patience:
His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift.
Othello (1603)
I do oppose
My patience to his fury, and am arm'd
To suffer, with a quietness of spirit,
The very tyranny and rage of his.
'Tis all men's office to speak patience
To those that wring under the load of sorrow,
But no man's virtue nor sufficiency
To be so moral when he shall endure
The like himself.