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Love loves no delay;
"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail,
"There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my
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"I have answered three questions, and that is enough,"
Said his father; "don't give yourself airs!
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Hatred and vengeance, my eternal portion,
Scarce can endure delay of execution:--
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Too slow, the wagons of years,
The oxen of days--too glum.
Our god is the god of speed,
Our heart--our battle-drum.
The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree seems to wait, and neither with impatience:Mthey give no thought to the little people ...
I am as poor as Job, my lord, but not so patient.
Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool
Are thou to break into this woman's mood,
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Dost thou think, though I am caparisoned like a man, I have
a doublet and hose in my disposition?
We know what boredom is: it is a dull
Impatience or a fierce velleity,
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