“Possess your soul in patience - you will see!”
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie
Source: The Glass Menagerie
“Possess your soul with patience.”
— John Dryden, book The Hind and the Panther
Pt. III, line 839.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)
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