"Longanimity" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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
... 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 |
