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Oh! said the doctor,
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Alas! said the miserable patient,
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I am Grimaldi!
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Though sometimes small evils, says Richard Sharp,
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He that will be served, says George Herbert,
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It was said of the cheerful and patient King Alfred that
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Marlborough's expectant calmness was great, and a principal secret of his success as a general.
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Patience will overcome all things, he wrote to Godolphin, in 1702. In the midst of a great emergency, while baffled and opposed by his allies, he said,
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Having done all that is possible, we should submit with patience.
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Even those who have nothing else have hope. Hope is the great helper of the poor. It has even been styled
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It is also the sustainer and inspirer of great deeds. It is recorded of Alexander the Great that, when he succeeded to the throne of Macedon, he gave away among his friends the greater part of the estates which his father had left him; and when Perdiccas asked him what he reserved for himself, Alexander answered,
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The greatest possession of all-- Hope!
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It may be said to be the moral engine that moves the world and keeps it in action; and at the end of all there stands before us what Robertson of Ellon styled
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The Great Hope.
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He is not afraid! Turning round upon them, he said:
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And why should the pleasing face of a gentleman frighten me? I have looked on the faces of angry men, and yet have not been afraid beyond measure. When the Reformer, worn out by excess of labor and anxiety, was at length laid to his rest, the regent, looking down into the open grave, exclaimed in words which made a strong impression from their aptness and truth--
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There lies he who never feared the face of man!
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Because great lords and ladies do not like to have their mouths stopped;
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Ursa Major; but, as Goldsmith generously said of him,
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No man alive has a more tender heart; he has nothing of the bear about him but his skin. The kindliness of Johnson's nature was shown on one occasion by the manner in which he assisted a supposed lady in crossing Fleet street. He gave her his arm and led her across, not observing that she was in liquor at the time. But the spirit of the act was not the less kind on that account. On the other hand, the conduct of the book-seller on whom Johnson once called to solicit employment, and who, regarding his athletic but uncouth person, told him he had better
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It may seem difficult, says Richard Sharp,
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Decline and Fall, the Duke of Cumberland met him one day, and accosted him with,
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How do you do, Mr. Gibbon? I see you are always _at it_ in the old way--_scribble, scribble, scribble_!