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The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.


Samuel Smiles


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We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.


Mahatma Gandhi


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When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance forever.


Tokugawa Ieyasu


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Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it.


Martin Van Buren


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If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?


Samuel Johnson


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And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.


Simon Raven


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Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.


Robert Louis Stevenson


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The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.


William Godwin


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He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.


John Steinbeck


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Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.


Ieyasu Tokugawa


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