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Patience
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“It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.”
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“The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.”
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“We usually learn to wait only when we have no longer anything to wait for.”
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“There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.”
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“... deferring gratification is a good definition of being civilized.”
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“What is your need to eat the seed, / When growth might be so sweet?”
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“... patience is an integral part of talent.”
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“What is so certain of victory as patience?”
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“In times of uncertainty, wait. Always, if you have any doubt, wait. Do not force yourself to any action. If you have a restraint in your spirit, wait until all is clear, and do not go against it.”
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“Like I always say, if you sit long enough by the crack of the door, you'll see your enemy go by in a hearse.”
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“Patient endurance / Attaineth to all things.”
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“... all fruits do not ripen in one season.”
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“You can't push a wave onto the shore any faster than the ocean brings it in.”
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“... as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.”
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“A pleasure deferred is a pleasure intensified.”
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“Who longest waits of all most surely wins.”
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“One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.”
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“I was taught that the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.”
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“There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.”
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“One step at a time.”
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“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
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“Ah! 'All things come to those who wait' — / ... / They come, but often come too late!”
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“Patience is easier if you have respect for the person or thing with which you are trying to be patient.”
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“Patience! Patience! Patience is the invention of dullards and sluggards. In a well-regulated world there should be no need of such a thing as patience.”
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“You can butcher the sheep only once. But if you are careful, you can shear the sheep every year.”
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“Patience is the capacity to endure all that is necessary in attaining a desired end. ... Patience never forsakes the ultimate goal because the road is hard. There can be no patience without an object.”
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“Her only levity is patience, / the sport of truly chastened things.”