"Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe."
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"And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?"
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"Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure)."
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"All too often we fail to ask what we are trying to sustain. Ultimately, sustainability must be measured by the endurance of thriving human communities."
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"People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance!"
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"Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you."
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"With athletes, it's never fully understood the level to which we push ourselves. Especially in an endurance sport."
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"What is kinder--to believe the best of people and burden them with a nobility beyond their endurance--or to see them as they are, and accept it because it makes them comfortable?"
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"More can I bear than you dare execute."
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"It is hard to mesmerize ourselves, to whip our own top; but through sympathy we are capable of energy and endurance. Concert fires people to a certain fury of performance they can rarely reach alone."
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"The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire."
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"I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds."
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"I feel like my endurance is actually better. Especially trying to get down to 140, I was experiencing body cramps."
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"I thought: If I was lucky enough to live, I'd change, myself-I realized I could have a new life-new energy, new endurance, and feel better about myself."
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"This greatest mortal consolation, which we derive from the transitoriness of all things-from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, "This, too, will pass away."
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"Do not disturb yourself by picturing your life as a whole; do not assemble in your mind the many and varied troubles which have come to you in the past and will come again in the future, but ask yourself with regard to every present difficulty: 'What is there in this that is unbearable and beyond endurance?'"
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"Endurance cannot be produced by determination alone; endurance is a product of physical exercise."
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"Yul Brynner's performance in "The King and I," . . . can no longer be regarded as a feat of acting or even endurance. After 30-odd . . . Mr Brynner is, quite simply, The King."
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"For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others."
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"Tis as manlike to bear extremities as godlike to forgive."
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