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Quotes About Endurance

THIS is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
~ Wilkie Collins
Let Lady Glyde's maid come in, Louis. Stop! Do her shoes creak? I was obliged to ask the question. Creaking shoes invariably upset me for the day. I was resigned to see the Young Person, but I was NOT resigned to let the Young Person's shoes upset me. There is a limit even to my endurance.
~ Wilkie Collins
our endurance must end, and our resistance begin, to-day.
~ Wilkie Collins
After the lapse of a minute, I roused my manhood, and opened the door.
~ Wilkie Collins
Only give a woman love, and there is nothing she will not venture, suffer, and do.
~ Wilkie Collins
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~ Wilkie Collins
I think it will end here. When I can bear it no longer, I think it will end here.
~ Wilkie Collins
The only dedication in one of the hosts of books I have had the privilege of knowing, is from the great contemporary thinker, Will Durant whose incredible encyclopedic mind had within it- the poetry of the heart, I quote: " TO MY WIFE Grow strong, my comrade…that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.
~ Will Durant
Life is that which can hold a purpose for three thousand years and never yield. The individual fails, but life succeeds. The individual is foolish, but life holds in its blood and seed the wisdom of generations. The individual dies, but life, tireless and undiscourageable, goes on, wondering, longing, planning, trying, mounting, longing.
~ Will Durant
The more things change, the more they remain the same.
~ Will Durant
Thomas had once watched a dog in a park, tethered to a tree, turning in slowly constricting circles until it had to be rescued and unwound. At which point it started winding itself anew. Heartbreak is a dog in a park on a tree.
~ Will Ferguson
Let us face the fact: how else can we endure life on this earth unless we can achieve a large degree of tolerance of oneself and others? Life is far too painful if we are hypersensitive and look for the flaws in everything.
~ Willard Beecher
And we are put on this earth a little space that we might learn to bear the beams of love.
~ William Blake
We are here to learn to endure the beams of love.
~ William Blake
And we are put on earth a little space, that we may learn to bear the beams of love; And these black bodies and this sunburnt face Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.
~ William Blake
To create a little flower is the labor of ages.
~ William Blake
And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love...
~ William Blake
Those of us who have the luck to enjoy good health forget about this vast parallel universe of the unwell-their daily miseries, their banal ordeals. Only when you cross that frontier into the world of ill-health do you recognize its quiet, massive presence, its brooding permanence.
~ William Boyd
Like the button, the wheelbarrow, the spoon and the umbrella, the printed book is one of the truly great inventions of mankind - beautifully efficient and enduringly ideal. The place to acquire these wonderful objects is in a bookshop, where thousands upon thousands of varieties await you. There is no substitute for the real thing.
~ William Boyd
Death will be late to bring us aid
~ William Carlos Williams
Some people stay longer in an hour than others do in a month.
~ William Dean Howells
Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
~ William Dean Howells
People die, God endures.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
~ William Faulkner