"It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself."
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"Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance."
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"Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you."
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"Practice patience; it is the essence of praise. Have patience, for that is true worship. No other worship is worth as much. Have patience; patience is the key to all relief."
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"The very important thing you should have is patience."
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"Lack of pep is often mistaken for patience."
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"I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose."
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". . . Wait, my child, wait and work on. Patience, patience. . . . ."
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"When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing."
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"No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time."
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"A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants it smooth offhand like a willow leaf, there is trouble ahead."
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"Patience is the key to content."
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"However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship."
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"Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold."
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"In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange."
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"Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet."
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"On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have it in an infinite degree, and among the less, the patient weak ones always conquer the impatient strong."
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"Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it's not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. it's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."
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"A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature."
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"I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process."
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