“Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.”
Part II, section 1.
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847)
“Great souls endure in silence.”
Act I, sc. iv ; as translated by R. D. Boylan and Joseph Mellish (1902)
Variant: ""Great spirits suffer patiently""; as translated by A. Leslie and Jeanne R. Willson (1983)
Don Carlos (1787)
Original
Doch große Seelen dulden still.
Dom Karlos I, 4 / Marquis, S. 47 http://www.deutschestextarchiv.de/schiller_domkarlos_1787/57
Dom Karlos (1787)
Variant: Grosse Seelen dulden still.
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All this I did without you. This was my loss.
All this I want to do with you. This will be my gain.
All this I would gladly have forgone for the sake of one minute of your company, for your laugh, your voice, your eyes, hair, lips, body, and above all for your sweet, ever surprising mind which is an enchanting quarry in which it is my privilege to delve.