What can that faith do for him in his need? It teaches him to bear adversity With patience that may shame a better creed.
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Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
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There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.
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The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.
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It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
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Hebrews 12:1:
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,
(NIV)
THEREFORE THEN, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who have borne testimony to the Truth], let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us
(AMP)
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
(KJV)
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The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live.
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Nay, Georias, I call him the bravest man, Who knows to suffer the most injuries With patience. All this swiftness of resentment Is proof of a little mind.
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To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship
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To accept what you are is to be content, and contentment is the greatest wealth. To work with patience is to gather power.
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To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.
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