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Patience
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Wait. Succeed. Repeat.
Patience is the ability to accept or tolerate delays, suffering, or frustration without becoming upset or anxious; it's a quiet strength that allows one to persevere through challenges. Its meaningfulness lies in its power to foster inner peace, nurture understanding, and ultimately, lead to more considered and fulfilling outcomes in both our personal endeavors and our relationships with others.
# Patience & Virtues
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“Patience is sorrow's salve.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15), Part II, Book I, Chapter VI.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (C)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (C)
“Patience and shuffle the cards.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Elizabeth Barrett Browning, p. 444.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895): Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895): Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).)
“In your patience ye are strong.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha (1855), Part X. Hiawatha's Wooing.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 583-84.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 583-84.)
“Rule by patience, Laughing Water!”
— Unknown
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Context: • Anonymous, but commonly attributed to Augustine of Hippo.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895): Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895): Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).)
“The reward of patience is patience.”
— Unknown
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“Patience is sorrow's salve.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote (1605-15), Part II, Book I, Chapter VI.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (C)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (C)
“Patience and shuffle the cards.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Elizabeth Barrett Browning, p. 444.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895): Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895): Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).)
“In your patience ye are strong.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha (1855), Part X. Hiawatha's Wooing.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 583-84.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 583-84.)
“Rule by patience, Laughing Water!”
— Unknown
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Context: • Anonymous, but commonly attributed to Augustine of Hippo.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895): Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895): Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895).)
“The reward of patience is patience.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Edgar Pangborn, A Mirror for Observers (1954), Prelude
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (P)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (P)
“Patience is a narcotic for the weak.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Every misfortune is to be subdued by patience.
• Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), V. 710.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (V)
• Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), V. 710.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (V)
“Superanda omnis fortuna ferendo est.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Jesus Christ in Luke 21:19 (KJV).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (J)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (J)
“In your patience possess ye your souls.”
— Unknown
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Context: • William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (late 1590s), Act I, scene 3, line 111.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (S)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (S)
“Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.
• Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), I. 207.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (V)
• Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), I. 207.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (V)
“Durate, et vosmet rebus servate secundis.”
— Unknown
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“Patience is a nobler motion than any deed.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Patience is the art of hoping.
• Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues, Réflexions, CCLI.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 583-84.)
• Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues, Réflexions, CCLI.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 583-84.)
“La patience est l'art d'espérer.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Patience, when too often outraged, is converted into madness.
• Syrus, Maxims. 289.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 583-84.)
• Syrus, Maxims. 289.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 583-84.)
“Furor fit læsa sæpius patientia.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Samuel Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes, line 352.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 583-84.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 583-84.)
“For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Benjamin Disraeli, Contarini Fleming (1832), Part IV, Chapter V.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (D)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (D)
“Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Marquis De Vauvenargues Reflections and Maxims (1746) no. 251.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (V)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (V)
“Patience is the art of hoping.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn, The Student's Tale, Part I.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 583-84.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 583-84.)
“All things come round to him who will but wait.”
— Unknown
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Context: • John Heywood, Proverbs (1546) Part I, ch 9.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (H)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (H)
“Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.”
— Unknown
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Context: • Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (1856), Book III, line 205.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 583-84.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 583-84.)
“I worked with patience which means almost power.”
— Unknown
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Context: • John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel (1681).
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (D)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Patience" (D)
“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
— Unknown
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