"We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world."
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"Have fire and spread all over. Work, work. Be the servant while leading, be unselfish, and never listen to one friend in private accusing another. Have infinite patience, and success is yours."
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"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind."
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"Patience is the greatest of all virtues."
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"The past is an illusion. You must learn to live in the present and accept yourself for what you are now. What you lack in flexibility and agility you must make up with knowledge and constant practice."
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"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
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"Our patience will achieve more than our force."
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"To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin."
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"There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness."
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"How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
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"Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting."
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"Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius."
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"Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown."
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"He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed."
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"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content."
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"Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily."
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"Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly."
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"I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back."
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"Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes. Patience attains All that it strives for."
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"The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil."
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