ProverbPerseverance
English origin16th c.
English origin16th c.What cannot be cured must be endured.
Meaning: Accept hardships beyond your control rather than waste energy resisting the inevitable.
Origin: Recorded in English from the late 16th century, with a forerunner in Langland's Piers Plowman (1377): when must comes forward, there is nothing for it but to suffer. It counsels patience with the unavoidable, and has a cheerier cousin in "make a virtue of necessity."
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