"The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest."

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There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practice it while they hear. No man can learn patience except by going out into the hurlyburly world, and taking life just as it blows. Patience is but lying to, and riding out the gale.

— Henry Ward Beecher