“Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. book Why We Can't Wait
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“Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.”
Part II, section 1.
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847)
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