“Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains”
– William Penn
Definition:
- Steady, earnest, and energetic effort : persevering application (M-W)
- The quality of careful and effortful work (Cambridge)
- An earnest endeavor to obtain something (New Advent)
Vices:
- Excess: Workaholism, the pursuit of work at the unreasonable expense of other goods
- Deficiency: Sloth, the unreasonable lack of work