And hence one master passion in the breast,
  Like Aaron’s serpent, swallows up the rest.
Essay on Man, Epistle II.  A. POPE.

PAST, THE.

  O, call back yesterday, bid time return.

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To-day, unhappy day, too late. King Richard II., Act iii.  Sc. 2.  SHAKESPEARE.

Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
Imitation of Horace, Bk, I. Ode XXIX.  J. DRYDEN.

                      Things without all remedy
  Should be without regard:  what’s done is done.
Macbeth, Act iii.  Sc. 2.  SHAKESPEARE.

Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were,

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A school-boy’s tale, the wonder of an hour! Childe Harold, Canto II.  LORD BYRON.

This is the place.  Stand still, my steed,
Let me review the scene,
And summon from the shadowy Past
The forms that once have been.
A Gleam of Sunshine.  H.W.  LONGFELLOW.

                                    Applause
  To that blest son of foresight:  lord of fate! 
  That awful independent on to-morrow
  Whose work is done; who triumphs in the past;
  Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
Night Thoughts, Night II.  DR. E. YOUNG.

For time is like a fashionable host,
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand,
And with his arms outstretched, as he would fly,
Grasps-in the comer.  Welcome ever smiles,
And farewell goes out sighing.
Troilus and Cressida, Act iii.  Sc. 3.  SHAKESPEARE.

PATIENCE.

  Endurance is the crowning quality,
  And patience all the passion of great hearts.
Columbus.  J.R.  LOWELL.

  His patient soul endures what Heav’n ordains,
  But neither feels nor fears ideal pains.
The Borough.  G. CRABBE.

’Tis all men’s office to speak patience
To those that ring under the load of sorrow. 
But no man’s virtue nor sufficiency
To be so moral when he shall endure
The like himself.
Much Ado about Nothing.  Act v.  Sc. 1.  SHAKESPEARE.

                          And I must bear
  What is ordained with patience, being aware
  Necessity doth front the universe
  With an invincible gesture.
Prometheus Bound.  E.B.  BROWNING.

How poor are they that have not patience! 
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Othello, Act ii.  Sc. 3.  SHAKESPEARE.

I will with patience hear, and find a time
Both meet to hear and answer such high things.
Julius Caesar, Act i.  Sc. 2.  SHAKESPEARE.

I worked with patience, which means almost power. Aurora Leigh, Bk.  III.  E.B.  BROWNING.