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Patience (n.) and ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠forbearance (n.) are the virtues that cloak the laziness or cowardice of not asserting one's rights — for a right is a kind of power, and power costs effort.

Patience (n.) with ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠earthly things, preached by slanderers of the earth: it is the earthly things that have too much patience with you.

Patience (n.) shows ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠in the pine that seems to listen and the fir that seems to wait, both without impatience, giving no thought to the little people beneath them who are devoured by impatience and curiosity.

Patience (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠self-hypnosis in company: fixing one's eyes on one's companion as on a glass button until one ceases to feel and goes to sleep unnoticed — amply tested in marriage and friendship.

Patience (n.) at ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠this height is the forgetting even of forbearance, because one no longer bears at all.

Patience (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the weak man's being ineluctably compelled to wait, his lingering at the door — renamed a virtue.