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Patience
Patience Patience is one of the Puritan virtue names that carries within it both the gentlest of Christian teachings — the capacity to endure suffering without despair — and the most quietly demanding. The Stoic roots of patientia in Roman philosophy connected endurance under trial to philosophical fortitude, and the name was used in both classical and Christian traditions as a measure of the highest moral character. A character named Patience is defined less by passivity than by the extraordinary active effort required to remain steadfast.
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Patience
Patience — W.S. Gilbert
The milkmaid heroine of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1881 comic opera, whose genuine innocence exposes the affected aestheticism surrounding her.
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