“All things come round to him who will but wait.”
Pt. I, The Student's Tale.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)
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American poet 1807–1882Related quotes
“Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.”
Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace
Bk. X, ch. 16
War and Peace (1865–1867; 1869)
“Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.”
Thomas Edison (1847–1931) American inventor and businessman
As quoted in Thomas Alva Edison : Sixty Years of an Inventor's Life (1908) by Francis Arthur Jones, p. 14.
1900s
“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”
Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
“There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done.”
Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) Scottish physician and author
