"Patience is the art of hoping."

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Source : Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

Luc de Clapiers

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“Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.”
“That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I feel that true freedom lies within, where I shall never find it.”
“It's only natural for unbridled partisanship, unrestrained by allegiance to a greater cause, to lead to chaos.”
“When you speak, speak the truth; perform when you promise; discharge your trust... Withhold your hands from striking, and from taking that which is unlawful and bad...”
“You are not ready to accept the fact that you have to give up. A complete and total 'surrender'. It is a state of hopelessness which says that there is no way out. Any movement in any direction, on any dimension, at any level, is taking you away from yourself.”
“Just as God's will is creation and is called 'the world' so His intention is the salvation of men, and it is called 'the Church.'”
“If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.”

Source : Charles George Gordon (1888). “Letters of General C.G. Gordon to His Sister, M.A. Gordon”, London ; New York : Macmillan

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