
“Have patience; the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer.”
Source: Galilee
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“Have patience; the lovers will suffer lovers always suffer.”
Source: Galilee
“Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.”
As quoted in New Cyclopædia of Illustrations (1870) by Elon Foster, p. 492
“Patience, a praise; forbearance is a treasure;
Sufferance, an angel is; a monster, rage.”
Book V, stanza 47
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
Letter 123 To Robert Jephson (13 July 1777)
“Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance.”
Pearls of Wisdom
“The same is true of the passive qualities, patience under suffering, even pleasure in ill usage.”
Source: The Beloved Returns (1939), Ch. 7
Context: Cruelty is one of the chief ingredients of love, and divided about equally between the sexes: cruelty of lust, ingratitude, callousness, maltreatment, domination. The same is true of the passive qualities, patience under suffering, even pleasure in ill usage.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727)