Abu Talib al-Makki Scholar, mystic
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 86
“It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.”
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book Bible
Source: Ecclesiastes 7:8
“When God's Spirit descends, then Patience accompanies Him indivisibly.”
Cum ergo spiritus Dei descendit, indiuidua patientia comitatur eum.
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De Patientia, 15:7
“Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed
A fairer spirit or more welcome shade.”
Thomas Tickell (1685–1740) English poet and man of letters
On the Death of Mr. Addison (1721), line 45.
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Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 53.
