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PATIENCE

My patience had been tested by the boys. I have to reflect on the virtue of patience today. Patience = The capacity of enduring hardship or inconvenience without complaint: forbearance , long-suffering , resignation , tolerance . FAMOUS QUOTES ON PATIENCE: "Patience is passion tamed." - Lyman Abbott "Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures." - Joseph Addison "Slow and steady wins the race." - Aesop "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 "Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul." - Francis Bacon "Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self." - Bhagavad Gita "Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as...