"Longanimity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... heah, yo' unregenerated specimen ob a ungrateful bipedical ornithology! What fo' yo' want t' distress mah longanimity fo'? Come back heah!" ...
— Through Space to Mars • Roy Rockwood
... ill-will in you to me, and had I hearkened to you, my regret had been prolonged and I had died miserably of grief." "O my father," quoth the prince, "but for the fairness of thy thought and thy judgment and thy longanimity and deliberation in affairs, there had not bedded thee this great joyance. Hadst thou slain me in haste, repentance would have been sore on thee and long grief, and on this wise doth ...
— Tales from the Arabic Volumes 1-3 • John Payne
... of temper; self-possession, self-control, self-command, self-restraint, ice water in one's veins; presence of mind. submission &c 725; resignation; sufferance, supportance^, endurance, longsufferance^, forbearance; longanimity^; fortitude; patience of Job, patience on a monument [Twelfth Night], patience 'sovereign o'er transmuted ill' [Johnson]; moderation; repression of feelings, subjugation of feeling; restraint &c 751. tranquillization ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... the virtues that can be named are enwrapt in one virtue of charity and love:—for "it suffereth long," and so it is longanimity; it "is kind," and so it is courtesy; it "vaunteth not itself," and so it is modesty; it "is not puffed up," and so it is humility; it "is not easily provoked," and so it is lenity; it "thinketh no evil," and so it is simplicity; ...
— Many Thoughts of Many Minds - A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age • Various
... charity, by lowliness and meekness, is the most durable, enduring, long-suffering thing in the world, "with long suffering, forbearing one another in love." These are the only principles of patience and longanimity. Anger and passion is expressed in scripture under the name of haste, and it is a sudden, furious, hasty thing, a rash, inconsiderate, impatient thing, more hasty than speedy. Now the special exercises and operations of ...
— The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning • Hugh Binning |
