Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.
Thomas HardyRead
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Patience involves having the courage to withstand difficulties while feeling apprehensive.
In this quote, Thomas Hardy emphasizes that true patience is not just the ability to wait but rather a courageous act that combines moral strength with the awareness of one's own fears. It suggests that enduring tough situations requires both resilience and a recognition of vulnerability, illustrating that patience is a complex quality that reflects both inner strength and humility.
Themes
PatienceCourageTimidityStrengthWaiting
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about perseverance, one might invoke this quote to inspire the audience to endure challenges.
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All quotes →Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there is set down in some old book somebody just like me, and to know that I shall only act her part; making me sad, that's all. The best is not to remember your nature and your past doings have been just like thousands' and thousands', and that your coming life and doings'll be like thousands' and thousands'.
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But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.
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I wish I had never been born--there or anywhere else.
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Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her—doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.
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The trees have inquisitive eyes, haven't they? -that is, seem as if they had. And the river says,-'Why do ye trouble me with your looks?' And you seem to see numbers of to-morrows just all in a line, the first of them the biggest and clearest, the others getting smaller and smaller as they stand further away; but they all seem very fierce and cruel and as if they said, 'I'm coming! Beware of me! Beware of me!
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