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Had it pleas'd heaven to try me with affliction... I should have found in some place of my soul a drop of patience.


William Shakespeare

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Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in mine affliction.
BIBLE A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
JAMES SHAPIRO Do you think, you who sold it, that this bottom of yours has been sweet to me? Affliction, I sought ...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I finally found a doctor with a lot of patients, and he didn't have any patience to listen to me.
ERMA BOMBECK William Shakespeare: 'Close up this din of hateful decay, decomposition of your witches' plot! You t...
GARETH ROBERTS With such a great affliction, I found the grace of liberty.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I went to the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia, where I had a teacher really named Edward...
ROBERT PICARDO I have found my heaven in musicals. When I watch a musical, it makes me believe life is still beauti...
JOHN WOO I knew I had found my soul mate when my mate found my soul
ANGELA PORISKY I peered deeper and found my soul. A little tattered and with some holes, but there all the same. It...
MARIA V. SNYDER This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air,...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
CHARLES DARWIN The great William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" He also said, "Call me Billy one more time a...
CUTHBERT SOUP My father told me, ‘my son, don’t ever undermine the power of patience; it brings a lot of hidde...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH An affliction immediately followed with steadfastness and forbearance is Patience.
MUHAMMAD ABDULLAH JAVED I have found within me a veritable fortune, a storehouse of sunshine, a vastness that stretches the ...
COLLEEN LAUKKA William Shakespeare: You will never age for me, nor fade, nor die.
MARC NORMAN I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an...
KILROY J. OLDSTER What madness, to love a man as something more than human! I lived in a fever, convulsed with tears a...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO I should learn to run, to wrestle, to swim, to ride horses, to row, to drive a car, to fire a rifle....
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS I found the absolute thrill of translating ancient poetic text into totally visceral, tangible and e...
BEN KINGSLEY Its a little like looking at yourself looking in a mirror looking at yourself looking in a mirror.
LOIS LOWRY I have gained a lot of international experience, which has also helped me with my confidence and pat...
BROOKE ZIMMERMAN Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again. We'll see.
MACAULAY CULKIN Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
RUDYARD KIPLING There's a place where I want to drop my bombs and there's a place where I don't want to drop my bomb...
BRIAN BUTLER Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.”
Say not, “I ha...
KAHLIL GIBRAN I am a caged bird,
rattling the bars of my cage,
with furious flutterings,
break my c...
STEVEN JAMES My soul is utterly frantic for that single place of perfect refuge from which I can clearly see the ...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or sp...
MAX BEERBOHM William Shakespeare: My muse, as always, is Aphrodite.
Philip Henslowe: Aphrodite Baggett, who ...
MARC NORMAN One time, two years ago, I took a draught of morphia, meaning to end my life. My mother found me bef...
SARAH WATERS If i had a drop of water for every time a lie was said i would have my own personal ocean with an ab...
GARY F EVANS... I have had a fascination with death, I think, that might be considered genetic for a long time. My f...
SALLY MANN So this was different. I was amazing now - to them and to myself. It was like I had been born to be ...
STEPHENIE MEYER One of my granddaughters came to me afterwards with a suggestion. She said 'Grandma, we should try t...
JOY LARSON I was closing up my parents' house this summer, and found a film of my dad throwing a football with ...
DAVID HYDE PIERCE I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never e...
BROOKE HAYWARD I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhyth...
NICOLAS CAGE Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies! Come ...
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies! Come He...
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE I always felt out of place. I wasn't a cool kid, but I wasn't a nerd, either. I had trouble ...
BRITTANY HOWARD Lark: "You shouldn't yell at her."
Frostpine: "Of course I should. Gods bless us all, Lark, bu...
TAMORA PIERCE Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of br...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë But for me, being naked out of doors and in the water is one of the best ways I have ever found to r...
ELIZABETH ROSNER Take me on a journey to the place of souls,” she whispered as he moved closer. “I want to close ...
TRACEY-ANNE MCCARTNEY And when all's said and done, the final comment will be (from me at least) so what? I'll live with m...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE I liked Shakespeare in high school, but in university I spent a semester studying in London, and it ...
ALEXI ZENTNER Then they gave me a loaf of bread and told me to walk through the forest and give some to anyone who...
PATRICIA C. WREDE What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is...
TYLER PERRY With silence only as their benediction, God's angels come Where in the shadow of a great affli...
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out o...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I want my son's soul to rest in peace. I want him to make it to heaven.
CATHERINE YOUNG I should have been delighted had it come to a fight. I felt absolutely sure of myself with a pistol ...
MANFRED VON RICHTHOFEN My prayer will shake heaven to come down and kiss the earth... and I will pose somewhere to watch it...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces.
MAURICE RAVEL I've done a lot of Shakespeare onstage, and I'm not convinced that the Earl of Oxford was th...
RHYS IFANS All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven...
BARBARA WALTERS He was not of an age, but fo...
BEN JONSON In fact, if it had been up to me I would have had them take a black screen and drop in front of me o...
DAVID ALLAN COE I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve...
WILLIAM SAROYAN Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.
MICHAEL J. FOX The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with d...
TAHIR SHAH Iata deci cugetarea mea profunda pe ziua de azi: e pentru prima oara cand intalnesc pe cineva care c...
MURIEL BARBERY I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life...
JAMES JOYCE I've stammered all my life, and it's fair to say that my stammer has shaped my life. It'...
GARETH GATES The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of...
ROBIN HOBB I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakesp...
OSCAR WILDE I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spir...
MAX BEERBOHM My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. ...
MICHELLE OBAMA Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience...
ABDUS SALAM Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some h...
OCTAVIA BUTLER In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always fo...
WINSTON CHURCHILL In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always fo...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Though sands be black and bitter black the sea, Night lie before me and behind me night, And G...
MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Maybe I should have resented him, but I didn't. After losing my mother, I didn't have patience for g...
RICK RIORDAN I did LSD in the hospital, never on my own. I did it in a controlled environment to try to find thin...
ANDY WILLIAMS Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.
TOM PETTY More then a thousand words written, but no notes to make a song. It shouldn't be this hard, and it s...
KATE Even if I was well - I must make myself as good a Philosopher as possible. Now I have had opportuni...
JOHN KEATS You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, bl...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, bl...
RUMI A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I try and spend a lot of time with my kids. I try and have fun with my kids. I try to put father tim...
FLAVOR FLAV I hate ingratitude more in a man
than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
or any taint...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no greater mistake in life than seeing things or hearing them at the wrong time. Shakespear...
AGATHA CHRISTIE There is not a tree in heaven higher than the tree of patience
IRISH SAYINGS Fortune, that with malicious joyDoes man her slave oppress,Proud of her office to destroy,Is seldom ...
JOHN DRYDEN All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics.
WILLIAM BLAKE I had a disc giving me a lot of trouble, and I had four surgeries. Then I had a staph infection, so ...
STEVE WYNN Obviously we had to study Shakespeare at school, but to be honest, I was not a fan. I found the lang...
SAMUEL BARNETT My bravery however was the effect of assurance for could I have believed the current report, I shoul...
HENRY LAURENS I have met many different people in the course of my life, some of whom I have come to know pretty w...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Every man thinketh he is rich enough in grace, till he take out his purse, and... then he findeth it...
SAMUEL RUTHERFORD I try in my life to follow my heart in terms of what moves me and what is important to me. I know wh...
GILLIAN ANDERSON My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

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When his fair angels would salute by palm,
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Good-morrow to thee; welcome:
Thou look'st like him that knows a warlike charge:
To business...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft int...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on natur...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The undiscovered country form whose born no traveler returns. Hamlet
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest wa...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows-- The...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A little more than kin, and less than kind!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O! beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But jealous souls will not be answered so; They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealou...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock The meat it fee...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess (As I confess it is my nature's p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to com...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Yet 'tis greater skill In a true hate to pray they have their will; The very devils cannot pla...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE How use doth breed a habit in a man! This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods, I better brook t...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The miserable have no other medicine But only hope.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-w...
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