patience (n.)
- acceptance
- application
- assiduity
- assiduousness
- ataraxia
- benevolence
- calmness
- charitableness
- charity
- clemency
- clementness
- compassion
- composure
- concentration
- condonation
- constancy
- cool
- determination
- diligence
- dispassion
- dispassionateness
- disregard
- doggedness
- dullness
- easiness
- easygoingness
- endurance
- engrossment
- equanimity
- fidelity
- firmness
- forbearance
- forgiveness
- forgivingness
- fortitude
- generousness
- gentleness
- humaneness
- humanity
- impassiveness
- impassivity
- imperturbability
- imperturbableness
- indefatigability
- indulgence
- industriousness
- industry
- insistence
- insistency
- kindness
- laxness
- lenience
- leniency
- lenity
- long-suffering
- longanimity
- loyalty
- magnanimity
- mercifulness
- mercy
- mildness
- moderateness
- nonresistance
- obstinacy
- passiveness
- permanence
- permissiveness
- perseverance
- persistence
- persistency
- pertinacity
- pity
- plodding
- preoccupation
- relentlessness
- resignation
- resolution
- resolve
- restraint
- sedulity
- sedulousness
- self-control
- serenity
- single-mindedness
- softness
- stability
- stamina
- steadfastness
- steadiness
- stoicism
- stolidity
- stubbornness
- submission
- submissiveness
- sufferance
- suffering
- tenaciousness
- tenacity
- tenderness
- tirelessness
- tolerance
- toleration
Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.
Patience, and shuffle the cards.
Patience and sorrow strove
Who should express her goodliest.
Her father loved me; oft invited me;
Still question'd me the story of my life,
From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes,
That I have passed.
I ran it through, even from my boyish days,
To the very moment that he bade me tell it:
Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,
Of moving accidents by flood and field,
Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach,
Of being taken by the insolent foe
And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence
And portance in my travels' history;
Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle,
Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven,
It was my hint to speak,—such was the process;
And of the Cannibals that each other eat,
The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads
Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear
Would Desdemona seriously incline.
This flour of wifly patience.
Sir Henry Wotton was a most dear lover and a frequent practiser of the Art of Angling; of which he would say, "'T was an employment for his idle time, which was then not idly spent, a rest to his mind, a cheerer of his spirits, a diverter of sadness, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, a procurer of contentedness;" and "that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it."
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
He that has patience may compass anything.
'T is 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.
An you had any eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels than fortunes before you.
Endurance is the crowning quality,
And patience all the passion of great hearts.
How poor are they that have not patience!
The worst speak something good; if all want sense,
God takes a text, and preacheth Pa-ti-ence.
For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
Arm th' obdur'd breast
With stubborn patience as with triple steel.
Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin.
Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.
