Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
Source: The Dyer's Hand, pt. 3, The I Without a Self, 1962.
-- W H Auden, (Feb 21 1907-1973), English-US poet, dramatist, editor; He wrote passionately about social problems and post-WW I anxiety; won Pulitzer for verse Age of Anxiety, 1948.