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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
* W. H. Auden
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Abused patience turns to fury.
* Thomas Fuller
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All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
* Thomas Fuller
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Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
* Baltasar Gracián
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Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
* Thomas Henry Huxley
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Only with winter-patience can we bring
The deep-desired, long-awaited spring.
* Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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That which in mean men we entitle patience
Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
* William Shakespeare
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I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
* Margaret Thatcher
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