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Christian Nestell Bovee: Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain…

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.

In today’s wordsEarnestness is what produces patience: it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, faces danger, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and eases the weariness of working through them.

Christian Nestell BoveeCommonly attributed
Source
From the book Quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources, compiled by James Wood, 1893

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