Glimpses of Bengal http://www.spiritualbee.com/tagore-book-of-letters/ (1921) <br class="br">Context: When sorrow is deepest... then the surface crust is pierced, and consolation wells up, and all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. Thus great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood.
Charles Darwin book On the Origin of Species (1859)
Source: On the Origin of Species (1859), chapter XV: "Recapitulation and Conclusion", page 421 http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?pageseq=449&itemID=F391&viewtype=image, in the sixth (1872) edition
Alison Croggon (1962) contemporary Australian poet, playwright and fantasy novelist
Source: The Naming
“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)
“Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.”
Sed fortuna, quae plurimum potest cum in reliquis rebus tum praecipue in bello, parvis momentis magnas rerum commutationes efficit; ut tum accidit.
Julius Caesar (-100–-44 BC) Roman politician and general
The Civil War, Book III, 68; variant translation: "In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes."
“Truth is great and its effectiveness endures.”
Ptahhotep Ancient Egyptian vizier
Maxim no. 5.
The Maxims of Ptahhotep (c. 2350 BCE)
Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856–1920) Indian independence activist
Sri Aurobindo, 1918, quoted from Sri Aurobindo, ., Nahar, S., Aurobindo, ., & Institut de recherches évolutives (Paris). India's rebirth: A selection from Sri Aurobindo's writing, talks and speeches. Paris: Institut de Recherches Evolutives. 3rd Edition (2000). [3]
“If you have endured a great despair, then, you did it alone.”
Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States
“Endurance is the crowning quality,
And patience all the passion of great hearts.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
Columbus (1844)
