Patience, A Human Strategy by Matt Berry, aphorism 335

335

Patience is not a virtue. It is a consolation. When we extend a desire too far nature lops it off, and we call our surviving half, Patience. Let us not give false honor to a maimed virtue. Understanding, harnessed to the necessary, is no longer “patient,” but is the goddess herself, natural ... eager. Give me that happy harness … that passion for the necessary, shield my eyes from all that begs and whines for hope, and I will sing my way up the mountain, and only as high as the goddess will take me ... with never a need to console myself in the knowledge that I cannot climb higher.



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