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Patience

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  1. 001 Even a stone grows warm if you sit on it for three years.
  2. 005 Even dust, piling up, becomes a mountain.
  3. 006 Dripping water wears through stone.
  4. 007 If you are in a hurry, take the long way round.
  5. 022 Tap even a stone bridge before crossing it.
  6. 031 To lose is to win.
  7. 032 Haste ruins the work.
  8. 033 A short temper is a losing temper.
  9. 078 Wait, and fair weather will come for the crossing.
  10. 080 Great vessels take long to complete.
  11. 084 After ease comes hardship, after hardship comes ease.
  12. 122 He who travels a hundred leagues counts ninety as halfway.
  13. 123 Trade is like an ox's drool.
  14. 153 The old fool moves the mountain.
  15. 167 The spring sea — all day long it swells and gently swells.
  16. 196 Little snail, climb, ever so slowly, Mount Fuji.
  17. 211 Harvest moon — all night long I paced around the pond.
  18. 230 Again and again I ask: the snow, how deep is it now?
  19. 266 Against a crying child and a local lord, no one wins.
  20. 303 Waiting for ripening is also part of the training.