"The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done."
-Thomas Carlyle
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"Oh, give us the man who sings at his work."
-Thomas Carlyle
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"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."
-Thomas Carlyle
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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."
-Thomas Carlyle
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"A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun."
-Thomas Carlyle
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"Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation."
-Thomas Carlyle
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"I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience."
-Tyrone Power
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"So it's been a slow process and it's taken some patience. That's why patients are called patients I think - patience is required."
-Bowie Kuhn
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"If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything."
-Ilie Nastase
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"Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required."
-Yiannis Stournaras
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"As a young boy, I read 'Cheaper by the Dozen' and immediately became neurotic about my use of time. It taxed me severely, but only for the next 50 years. But I think it also allowed me to discipline myself to sit in the chair and be a writer, where one of the most needed qualities is patience."
-Ridley Pearson
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"Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked."
-Abdus Salam
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