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1  A little further perseverance in patience and forced cheerfulness on Anne's side produced nearly a cure on Mary's.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
2  What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation: of all the conflicts and all the sacrifices that ennoble us most.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
3  Anne's mind was in a most favourable state for the entertainment of the evening; it was just occupation enough: she had feelings for the tender, spirits for the gay, attention for the scientific, and patience for the wearisome; and had never liked a concert better, at least during the first act.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
4  When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of her coming to Lyme to preach patience and resignation to a young man whom she had never seen before; nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11