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Patience is passion tamed. -Lyman Abbott
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Tragedy delights by affording a shadow of the pleasure which exists in pain. -Percy Bysshe Shelley
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. -Robert Leighton
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. -Robert Leighton
Oh! too convincing — dangerously dear — In woman’s eye the unanswerable tear! -Byron, Lord
Oh! too convincing — dangerously dear — In woman’s eye the unanswerable tear! -Byron, Lord
And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying. -Christina Rossetti
And all the winds go sighing, for sweet things dying. -Christina Rossetti
To begin, begin. -Zarlenga, Peter Nivio
To begin, begin. -Zarlenga, Peter Nivio
No truly great person ever thought themselves so. -William Hazlitt
No truly great person ever thought themselves so. -William Hazlitt