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"Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown."
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"Have patience or be a patient. Have patience in preparatory moments or be a patient after preparatory moments."
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"For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you."
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"Patience isn't tested when it is self-imposed and the duration is self-regulated. Patience is hardly tested when the outcome means little to you. However, when circumstances beyond your control force you to wait with baited breath knowing the outcome will affect your life substantially, that is the true test of patience. It is a cage inside a burning building where every exit is blocked by angels calmly advising you to wait a moment longer. Your choice is to either trust their words or madly claw through them."
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"If you are willing to wait, you will get what you want."
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"If you chase a butterfly, it will escape; if you feed it, it will come."
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"It is not a vice or a show of weakness when you live by the principle of delay gratification."
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"Patience is underscored with forgiveness."
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"A delay want is never denial."
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"Don't be quick to get angry."
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"If a train is two minutes late in leaving, one will become impatient, 'when will the train leave, when will it leave?' This world is not worth getting impatient restless about."
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"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."
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"How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech."
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"Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die."
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"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."
Change

"There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death."
Death

"The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo."
Life

"Purity of heart is to will one thing."
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"I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved."
Society

"What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music."
Music

"Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid."
Age
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