“Of all the plagues a lover bears,Sure rivals are the worstI can endure my own despair, But not another’s hope.”

“I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope”

“those who govern ought not to be lovers of the task? For, if they are, there will be rival lovers, and they will fight.”

“Hindley, with apparently the stronger head, has shown himself sadly the worse and weaker man ... One hoped, the other despaired: they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them.”

“Patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with something and doing all that we can—working, hoping, and exercising faith; bearing hardship with fortitude, even when the desires of our hearts are delayed. Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!”

“Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. (I Corinthians 13: 7-8a ESV)”