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"Patience is sorrow's salve."
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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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"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."
Envy

"Patience is sorrow's salve."
Patience

"The best things carried to excess are wrong."
Moderation

"The danger chiefly lies in acting well; no crime's so great as daring to excel."
Acting

"Be England what she will, with all her faults she is my country still."
Nation

"Genius is independent of situation."
Genius

"Genius is of no country."
Genius

"Keep up appearances; there lies the test. The world will give thee credit for the rest."
Appearance

"It can't be Nature, for it is not sense."
Nature

"Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest."
Man
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