Patience
The patient man is merry indeed....
The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour,
and his very dungeon but the lower side of the vault of heaven.
He kisseth the wheel that must kill him;
and thinks the stairs of the scaffold of his martyrdom
but so many degrees of his ascent to glory.
The tormentors are weary of him.
The beholders have pity on him, all men wonder at him;
and while he seems below all men,
below himself, he is above nature.
He hath so overcome himself that nothing can conquer him.
—Thomas Adams
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