[endurance]
"
... is not the patience which can sit down and bow the head and let
things descend upon it and passively endure until the storm is passed
... it is the spirit which can bear things not simply with resignation,
but with blazing hope; it is not the spirit which sits statically
enduring in one place, but the spirit which bears things because it
knows that these things are leading to a goal of glory; it is not the
patience which grimly hopes for the end, but the patience which
radiantly hopes for the dawn ... it is the quality which keeps a man on
his feet with his face to the wind. it is the virtue which can transmit
the hardest trial into glory because beyond the pain, it sees the goal."
- william barclay
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