The poem is sad because it wants to be yours, and cannot be.
Heroism is endurance for one moment more.
It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.
That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.
I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.
Self-parody is the first portent of age.
I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.
It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.
In the country of pain we are each alone.
I was convinced that the world was in the departure and paging.
I have the knack of easing scruples.
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
I'd like to think I'm a great teacher.
Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Hate has no place in the house of God.
