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Both members rest on sources registered for comparisons, so the relation evidence covers both sides. A Persian–English proverb dictionary places the Persian saying among sayings about patience being rewarded, and an English historical dictionary records the English saying with related forms that tie waiting to getting what one wants. No source compares the two sayings directly, so the pairing is an editorial comparison; no shared origin or borrowing is claimed.
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He that can stay obtains.
The person who can wait obtains the goal.
Here ‘stay’ means wait. The saying holds that the person who is able to wait is the one who eventually gets what they are after, while those who give up or settle early go without. By saying ‘can stay’, it treats patience as a capacity that not everyone has, and presents that capacity as a real advantage in reaching a goal. The saying does not promise that waiting alone is enough, and it gives no way to tell a wait that will pay off from one that will not. It is misapplied when the goal is never going to arrive, or when the moment calls for action rather than patience. It also leaves aside whether a person can afford to wait: some people cannot hold out for long, and the saying does not account for that.
کارها بصبر برآید و مستعجل بسر درآید
kārhā be-sabr bar-āyad va mostaʿjel be-sar dar-āyad
Patience sees things through; whoever rushes takes a fall.
The saying sets two outcomes side by side. Work that is given time and steady attention reaches its end, while the person who presses for a quick result stumbles and is brought down, so haste ends up defeating the very goal it was meant to reach sooner. Patience here is not idle waiting but the way a task is carried through, and impatience is treated as a real danger rather than a minor nuisance. The saying does not say how long the wait will be or promise that waiting alone is enough; its force comes from the contrast between the two figures.
Why these are connected, and where they differ
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Both sayings make patience the route to a result. The English holds that the one who can wait obtains; the Persian holds that tasks are carried through by patience. Each is offered to someone tempted to stop waiting before the end is in hand.
The English speaks only of the patient person and what that person gains, and it treats the ability to wait as a capacity some people have. The Persian sets up a contrast and gives haste an outcome of its own, a fall, so it warns as much as it encourages. It also speaks of tasks coming to completion rather than of a person obtaining something. Neither record establishes present-day usage.
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