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Perseverance brings good fortune. Remorse disappears.
If a man is agitated in mind, And his thoughts go hither and thither, Only those friends On whom he fixes his conscious thoughts Will follow....
Perseverance brings good fortune. Remorse disappears.
Shock, thus to discipline the Devil's Country. For three years, great realms are awarded....
Perseverance brings good fortune. Remorse disappears.
The hedge opens; there is no entanglement. Power depends upon the axle of a big cart....
Perseverance brings good fortune. Remorse vanishes.
Nothing that does not further. No beginning, but an end....
Perseverance furthers. To undertake something brings misfortune.
Without decreasing oneself, One is able to bring increase to others....
Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.
-- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Life of Se...
PERSEVERANCE, n. A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.
"Persevere, persevere!" cry the homilists all, Themselves, day and night, persevering to bawl....
Persevering mediocrity is much more respectable, and unspeakably more useful than talented inconstancy.
-- Dr. James Hamilto...
Persistence in one opinion has never been considered a merit in political leaders. -- Cicero
Persistently ill, and still does not die.

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