Patience-- Amari Martin

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AUTHOR: William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
QUOTATION: ’T is all men’s office to speak patience
To those that wring under the load of sorrow,
But no man’s virtue nor sufficiency
To be so moral when he shall endure
The like himself.
ATTRIBUTION: Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.
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  1. fray
    wear away by rubbing
    He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.
    Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Iliad
  2. revolution
    a single complete turn
    Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
    John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), In a speech at the White House, 1962
  3. faith
    complete confidence in a person or plan, etc.
    Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
    Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
  4. love
    a strong positive emotion of regard and affection
    It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
    Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), The Way of All Flesh, Chapter 77
    Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
  5. humble
    marked by meekness or modesty; not arrogant or prideful
    I am no more humble than my talents require.
    Oscar Levant (1906 - 1972)
  6. hiatus
    an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
    There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses.
    Alan Moore (1953 - ), Watchmen, 1986
  7. feeble
    pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness
    My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
    Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
  8. hostility
    a state of deep-seated ill-will
    If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)
  9. marvel
    be amazed at
    Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.
    Denise Levertov
  10. diligence
    conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task
    Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
    Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
Created on Thu Mar 10 16:09:05 EST 2011 (updated Wed Mar 23 16:32:40 EDT 2011)

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