Many Thoughts of Many Minds Part 45

We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.--MARIE EBNER-ESCHENBACH.

No school is more necessary to children than patience, because either the will must be broken in childhood or the heart in old age.--RICHTER.

We have only to be patient, to pray, and to do His will, according to our present light and strength, and the growth of the soul will go on.

The plant grows in the mist and under clouds as truly as under suns.h.i.+ne; so does the heavenly principle within.--CHANNING.

He that will have a cake of the wheat must needs tarry the grinding.

--SHAKESPEARE.

Patience is a n.o.bler motion than any deed.--C.A. BARTOL.

Patience is the guardian of faith, the preserver of peace, the cherisher of love, the teacher of humility; Patience governs the flesh, strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride; she bridles the tongue, refrains the hand, tramples upon temptations, endures persecutions, consummates martyrdom; Patience produces unity in the church, loyalty in the State, harmony in families and societies; she comforts the poor and moderates the rich; she makes us humble in prosperity, cheerful in adversity, unmoved by calumny and reproach; she teaches us to forgive those who have injured us, and to be the first in asking forgiveness of those whom we have injured; she delights the faithful, and invites the unbelieving; she adorns the woman, and approves the man; is loved in a child, praised in a young man, admired in an old man; she is beautiful in either s.e.x and every age.--BISHOP HORNE.

Patience is the ballast of the soul, that will keep it from rolling and tumbling in the greatest storms; and he that will venture out without this to make him sail even and steady will certainly make s.h.i.+pwreck and drown himself, first in the cares and sorrows of this world, and then in perdition.--BISHOP HOPKINS.

There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.--LA BRUYeRE.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience is the ruin of strength.--COLTON.

If the wicked flourish and thou suffer, be not discouraged. They are fatted for destruction; thou art dieted for health.--FULLER.

Patience is sorrow's salve.--CHURCHILL.

PATRIOTISM.--He serves his party best, who serves the country best.

--RUTHERFORD B. HAYES.

This is a maxim which I have received by hereditary tradition, not only from my father, but also from my grandfather and his ancestors, that after what I owe to G.o.d, nothing should be more dear or more sacred than the love and respect I owe to my country.--DE THOU.

Be just, and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim'st at, be thy country's, Thy G.o.d's, and Truth's.

--SHAKESPEARE.

Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first, best country ever is at home.

--GOLDSMITH.

I love my country's good, with a respect more tender, more holy and profound, than my own life.--SHAKESPEARE.

Hail, Columbia! happy land!

Hail, ye heroes! heaven born band!

Who fought and bled in freedom's cause, Who fought and bled in freedom's cause, And when the storm of war was gone, Enjoyed the peace your valor won.

Let Independence be our boast, Ever mindful what it cost; Ever grateful for the prize, Let its altar reach the skies!

--JOSEPH HOPKINSON.

Strike--for your altars and your fires; Strike--for the green graves of your sires; G.o.d, and your native land!

--FITZ-GREENE HALLECK.

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One nation evermore!

--HOLMES.

If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.--JOHN A. DIX.

The n.o.blest motive is the public good.--VIRGIL.

The union of lakes, the union of lands, The union of States none can sever, The union of hearts, the union of hands, And the flag of our Union forever!

--GEORGE P. MORRIS.

I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American.

--DANIEL WEBSTER.

Our country--whether bounded by the St. John's and the Sabine, or however otherwise bounded or described, and be the measurement more or less--still our country, to be cherished in all our hearts, to be defended by all our hands.--ROBERT C. WINTHROP.

Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee, Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, Our faith triumphant o'er our fears, Are all with thee,--are all with thee!

--LONGFELLOW.

I am not accustomed to the language of eulogy; I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets, since the creation of the world, in praise of woman, was applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war.--ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

How dear is fatherland to all n.o.ble hearts!--VOLTAIRE.

Let our object be our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And, by the blessing of G.o.d, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever.--DANIEL WEBSTER.

PEACE.--Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of G.o.d.--MATTHEW 5:9.

I could not live in peace if I put the shadow of a wilful sin between myself and G.o.d.--GEORGE ELIOT.

Five great enemies of peace inhabit with us--avarice, ambition, envy, anger and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.--PETRARCH.

There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.--WAs.h.i.+NGTON.

They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.--ISAIAH 2:4.

I never advocated war except as a means of peace.--U.S. GRANT.

There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul--to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to G.o.d.--CHAPIN.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired; but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.--ANDREW JACKSON.

PERSEVERANCE.--The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the pathway of the strong.--CARLYLE.

It is all very well to tell me that a young man has distinguished himself by a brilliant first speech. He may go on, or he may be satisfied with his first triumph; but show me a young man who has not succeeded at first, and nevertheless has gone on, and I will back that young man to do better than most of those who have succeeded at the first trial.--CHARLES JAMES FOX.

I hold a doctrine, to which I owe not much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.--SIR T.F. BUXTON.

Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.--BAYARD TAYLOR.

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united by ca.n.a.ls. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of a pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are levelled, and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings.--DR. JOHNSON.