patience and moderation

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• moderation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Keeping within limits Nouns 1. moderation, moderateness, temperance, continence, temperateness, gentleness; self restraint, self control, asceticism, abstinence; teetotalism, soberness, sobriety; quiet,… …   English dictionary for students

• patience — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. leniency, tolerance; perseverance, persistence; forbearance, long suffering, submission, endurance; solitaire. See inexcitability, resignation.Ant., impatience. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Willingness to …   English dictionary for students

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• Virtue — (Latin virtus ; Greek Polytonic|ἀρετή) is moral excellence. Personal virtues are characteristics valued as promoting individual and collective well being, and thus good by definition. The opposite of virtue is vice.Etymologically the word virtue… …   Wikipedia

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