Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.
Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
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