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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


  • Abused patience turns to fury.
    * Thomas Fuller


  • All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.
    * Thomas Fuller


  • Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.
    * Baltasar Gracián


  • Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
    * Thomas Henry Huxley


  • Only with winter-patience can we bring
    The deep-desired, long-awaited spring.
    * Anne Morrow Lindbergh


  • That which in mean men we entitle patience
    Is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
    * William Shakespeare


  • I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end.
    * Margaret Thatcher