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• Why is everything an 'adventure' with you?" Sylvie said irritably to Izzie." "Because life is an adventure, of course." "I would say it was more of an endurance race," Sylvie said. "Or an obstacle course.

  Kate Atkinson

  Adventure, Race, Obstacles

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• All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.

  Muhammad Ali

  Has Beens, Tested

  Muhammad Ali, Hana Yasmeen Ali (2013). “The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• Holy Communion is the shortest and safest way to Heaven. There are others: innocence, but that is for little children; penance, but we are afraid of it; generous endurance of trials of life, but when they come we weep and ask to be. The surest, easiest, shortest way is the Eucharist.

  Pope Pius X

  Children, Heaven, Way

  "Quotable Saints" by Ronda Chervin, (p. 79), 2003.

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• 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.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Pain, Light, Giving

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought" by Christian Nestell Bovee, Vol. I, (p. 161), 1862.

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• I never enjoyed life in my twenties, not one minute of it. It was a test of endurance that I'm surprised I survived. Professionally, of course, I was doing very well but personally it couldn't have been worse or more difficult for me if I'd been living in a mud hut in Leeds.

  Steven Morrissey

  Twenties, Tests, Mud

  "Q" Magazine Interview, 1995.

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• Suffering produces the very endurance that will enable you to reach the finish line of the race set before you.

  Catherine Martin

  Race, Suffering, Lines

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• Look on the grave where thou must sleep Thy last, and strongest foe; It is endurance not to weep, If that repose seem woe.

  Emily Bronte

  Death, Sleep, Looks

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2014). “Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell”, p.123, The Floating Press

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• Waiting is directed at nothing: any object that could gratify it would only efface it. Still, it is not confined to one place, it is not a resigned immobility; it has the endurance of a movement that will never end and would never promise itself the reward of rest; it does not wrap itself in interiority; all of it falls irremediably outside.

  Michel Foucault

  Fall, Waiting, Promise

  Michel Foucault (1998). “Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology”, p.167, The New Press

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• Every woman must live by some sense of victory over disappointments, and Olympias was not the sort of woman to find compensation in her own powers of self-control and endurance.

  Laura Riding

  Disappointment, Self, Victory

  Laura (Riding) Jackson, Laura Riding (1939). “Lives of Wives”

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• Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith - a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will - but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world - faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity.

  George F. Kennan

  Writing, Historical, World

  "Putting History at Risk". www.nytimes.com. May 27, 1984.

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• The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.

  Austin O'Malley

  Men, Differences, Swiftness

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• It is in rugged crises, in unbearable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of the question, that the angel is shown.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Angel, Unbearable

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• Love, from its awful throne of patient power
  In the wise heart, from the last giddy hour
  Of dread endurance, from the slippery, steep,
  And narrow verge of crag-like agony, springs
  And folds over the world its healing wings.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Life, Wise, Spring

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley (1855). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: In Three Volumes”, p.441

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• Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.

  Dante Alighieri

  Blow, Men, Sight

  Dante Alighieri (2003). “The Portable Dante”, p.282, Penguin

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• I swore that I would not suffer from the world's grief and the world's stupidity and cruelty and injustice and I made my heart as hard in endurance as the nether millstone and my mind as a polished surface of steel. I no longer suffered, but enjoyment had passed away from me.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Grief, Heart, Stupidity

  Aurobindo Ghose, Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo Ashram (1994). “Essays divine and human with thoughts and aphorisms”, Lotus Press (WI)

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• I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove, a cat scrambles in the cave of my sex, hounds in my bed obey a whipmaster who cries nothing but havoc as the hours test my endurance with an accumulation of tortures. Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders?

  Elizabeth Smart

  Running, Sex, Heart

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• There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody with whom to speak his own language or find companionship.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Patience, Mistake, Men

  Sarah Orne Jewett (2016). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.78, Sarah Orne Jewett

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• In Christ we see the strength of achievement, and the strength of endurance. He moved with a calm majesty, like the sun. The bloody sweat, and the crown of thorns, and the cross, were full in His eyes; but He was obedient unto death. In His perfect self-sacrifice we see the perfection of strength; in the love that prompted it we see the perfection of beauty. This combination of self-sacrifice and love must be commenced in every Christian; and when it shall be in its spirit complete in him, then will he also be perfect in strength and beauty.

  Mark Hopkins

  Christian, Eye, Sacrifice

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.61, 1895.

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• Doing a sitcom is like doing a play - you rehearse for three or four days, and then you shoot what you rehearsed on Friday night in front of an audience. An hour-long drama is like shooting a movie. You're shooting 13-14 hour days. The endurance itself is different.

  James Belushi

  Friday, Drama, Night

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• All things are the same, familiar in enterprise, momentary in endurance, coarse in substance. All things now are as they were in the day of those whom we have buried.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Substance, Buried, Coarse

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius. Book IX, 14,

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• The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.

  Ilka Chase

  Marriage, Facts, Rewards

  Ilka Chase (1948). “Free Admission”

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• They who boast of their tolerance merely give others leave to be as careless about religion as they are themselves. A walrus might as well pride itself on its endurance of cold.

  Augustus William Hare

  Pride, Giving, Tolerance

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.475

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• It [live performance] is just very difficult. Doing an hour, hour and a half of live standup is an endurance test. You almost have to do it every day to stay up on it.

  Steve Martin

  Half, Tests, Hours

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Science is experimental, moving forward step-by-step, making trial and learning through success and failure. Is not this also the way of religion, and especially of the Christian religion? The writings of those who preach the religion have from the very beginning insisted that it is to be proved by experience. If a man is drawn towards honour and courage and endurance, justice, mercy, and charity, let him follow the way of Christ and find out for himself. No findings in science hinder him in that way.

  William Henry Bragg

  Christian, Moving, Writing

  Sir William Henry Bragg (1941). “Science and faith, delivered before the University of Durham at King's college, Newcastle upon Tyne, on 7 March 1941”

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• Patience and endurance were not virtues in a woman; they were necessities, forced on her. Perhaps some day things would change and women would renounce them. They would rise up and say: 'We are not patient. We will endure no more.' Then what would happen to the world?

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  World, Patient, Virtue

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