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Letter "I" » impatience
«Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity»
Author: Father James Keller
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carved, cell, condemned, impatience, imprisonment, keep up, prisoner, sentiment, spirits, The Tower, The Tower of London, The Wall, three hundred, tower, Tower of, Tower of London, with impatience
«The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris»
«Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength»
«Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.»
Author: W. H. Auden
(Dramatist, Editor, Poet)
| About:
Impatience,
Sin
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cardinal, Cardinals, driven, impatience, paradise, The Cardinals
«The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience -- they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
devoured, fir, fir tree, impatience, pine, pined, pine tree, The Fir
«There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Community
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eagerness, immediate, impatience, nearest
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