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Patience is the Beginning of Wisdom (poem)


Patience is the beginning
of all known wisdom,
for she who waits patiently
reaps the benefits
of her fortitude.

He who waits will gain
much from patience than from haste,
that each little pain
is the bitter fruit of waste,
whose black juice his heart does stain.

Yet patience has as reward
the sweetest wisdom,
worth far more than gold itself —
to savor with ease
with plenty of time to spare.

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