“So I, most miserable, ever sick with the heats of impatience, must of necessity sigh after, and invoke, and persistently plead for, that health of patience which I possess not”
Tertullian, On Patience (trans S Thelwall)
http://www.ccel.org/fathers2/ANF-03/anf03-56.htm
Base metal takes some time to change to gold;
Like last night’s pizza as a breakfast snack,
Revenge is a dish best eaten cold
Fools rush in, and won’t be told:
Frustrated alchemists established it as fact
Base metal takes some time to change to gold
Take the long view as the years unfold
You pay your dues and then you pay them back
Revenge is a dish best eaten cold
The instinct is to fight, be bold
But it’s best not to react
Base metal takes some time to change to gold
Wait until the final dice is rolled
Before you drop your token in the sack
Revenge is a dish best eaten cold
A knife needs work to forge and mould
Until it’s sharp and ready in the rack
Base metal takes some time to change to gold;
Revenge is a dish best eaten cold
Martin Locock, 2002
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