• Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

  W. H. Auden
  American poet
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. impatience
2. paradise
3. driven
4. cannot
5. return

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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. by : W. H. Auden

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