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Patience.
Explore passages mentioning patience, patient. Topic suggestions use transparent word matching, not scholarly classification. Reviewed editorial meanings may also connect entries to this topic; those assignments are labelled separately from word matching.
Meaning: The saying pictures agues arriving on horseback and departing on foot. It contrasts a rapid onset with a slower imagined recovery through two ways of travelling.
Meaning: Unpleasant early weather is linked with a pleasing later display of flowers. The sequence can express hope that present conditions help prepare a later benefit.
Meaning: The saying asks for steadiness when conditions become less favourable, rather than enjoyment only when things go well. Its complaint about deserving a good market should not imply that suffering earns success or that someone must tolerate an unfair arrangement.
Meaning: An imperfect resource is compared with losing the underlying capacity altogether. The saying can encourage appreciation of what remains useful, but its bodily comparison must not become a demand that someone accept inadequate support or feel grateful for hardship.
Meaning: Endurance has limits. A person may keep accepting burdens until the strain becomes more than they can carry, so willingness should not be mistaken for unlimited capacity.
Meaning: Endure ordinary difficulties and show restraint toward other people’s faults. Patience and mutual tolerance can keep small frictions from becoming repeated quarrels.
Meaning: The saying combines endurance of present difficulty with hope for something better. It can support patience during a bounded setback, but hope does not guarantee improvement and bearing evil should never require accepting abuse, danger or preventable wrongdoing.
Meaning: A fierce burst of trouble may pass quickly. The saying offers patience during an intense moment, but its confident prediction should not be treated as a guarantee about weather or hardship.
Meaning: Wanting a benefit while refusing the effort it requires can leave the wish unfulfilled. Consider which inconveniences are genuinely necessary to obtain what you want.
Meaning: An unpromising beginning need not determine how the rest of an experience develops. The cloudy-morning image encourages leaving room for improvement, while it should not be treated as a weather forecast or a promise that every difficulty ends well.
Meaning: Small efforts repeated over time can produce a substantial change. The saying values steady persistence, while leaving room to check whether the effort is effective and whether the desired result is actually achievable.
Meaning: An early view of a crop may disappoint while a later view encourages hope. May and June contrast stages of development rather than one permanent verdict.
Meaning: A desired benefit may require doing the necessary work to reach it. Cracking the nut before eating its kernel links a result to its practical prerequisite, without promising that any amount of effort guarantees success.
Meaning: Learn the basic steps before attempting a more demanding task. Gradual preparation can help, while the appropriate starting point depends on the learner and the skill involved.
Meaning: A valued reward may require accepting difficulty or sacrifice. The cross stands for hardship and the crown for the hoped-for reward.
Meaning: The saying pictures crosses as ladders toward heaven. Burdens are made into a religious image of possible progress rather than mere obstruction.
Meaning: The saying presents crosses as ladders leading to heaven. It gives burdens a hopeful direction within a religious interpretation of suffering.
