“Endurance is the crowning quality,
And patience all the passion of great hearts.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
Columbus (1844)
“but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another.”
— J. Sheridan Le Fanu, book Carmilla
Source: Carmilla
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