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patience (s) (noun), patiences (pl)
The capacity, habit, or fact of being calm and enduring pain, or affliction, with composure and without complaint; calm endurance, forbearance: When Jane was making some bread using yeast, she had to have a lot of patience for the dough to rise.

A lack of pep is often mistaken for patience.

—Ken Hubbard

Endurance is patience concentrated.

—Thomas Carlyle

He that can have patience can have what he will.

—Benjamin Franklin

Patience is power; with time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes silk.

—Chinese Proverb

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

—Hal Borland

Patience is a quality that is most needed when it is exhausted and it's also the ability to do something else while waiting. Patience is the most important virtue to cultivate if you are always punctual.

—Evan Esar

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

—Laurence J. Peter

Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians.

—Bulgarian proverb
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