"Things may serve long, but not serve ever."
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"We may be masters of our every lot By bearing it."
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"Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance."
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"I suppose if you could have only one thing, it would be that-energy. Without it, you haven't got a thing."
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"If we fail to encourage physical development and prowess, we will undermine our capcity for thought, for work, and for use of those skills vital to an expanding and complex America."
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"Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o'er the disentangled doom."
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"Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly."
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"August in sub-Saharan Los Angeles is one of the great and awful tests of one's endurance, sanity and stamina."
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"The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool."
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"One-time Guinness World Record holder for Yo-Yo endurance."
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"God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices."
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"Patient endurance attends to all things."
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"Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of."
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"It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You almost have to do it every day to stay up on it."
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"He that endures is not overcome."
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"Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth."
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"Endurance is often the best indicator of validity & value"
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"Everything passes. (That's what makes it endurable.)"
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"Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life."
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"The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects."
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