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Patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude,—and the rarest, too.
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“Patience is the finest and worthiest part of fortitude,—and the rarest, too.”

John Ruskin

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The Ethics of the Dust
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1866
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Ruskin separates patience from mere persistence: fortitude is not only continuing to act, but also bearing delay, frustration and incomplete results without losing steadiness.

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The Ethics of the Dust, Lecture IV, Project Gutenberg #4701. Ruskin immediately contrasts many persevering people with the rarer patient person and later insists that genuine patience is not necessarily passive or idle.

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