"Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance."
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"Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human."
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"It is the faith and perseverance and single-mindedness with which Hitler has perfected his weapons of destruction that commands my admiration."
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"It is a shameful thing for the soul to faint while the body still perseveres."
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"My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity."
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"Step by step the ladder is ascended."
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"When Babe Didrickson Zaharias, often called the 'athletic phenomenon of all time,' won the British woman's gold tournament, people said of her what they had said many times before: "Oh, she's an automatic champion, a natural athlete." When Babe started golfing in earnest thirteen years ago she hit as many as 1,000 balls in one afternoon, playing until her hands were so sore they had to be taped."
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"Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of hope and of the future tense, for not only the obstinate is willed, but far more the constant and persevering. The obstinate man, properly speaking, is one who will not. The perseverance of the saints is positive willedness, not a mere passive willingness. The fates are wild, for they will; and the Almighty is wild above all, as fate is."
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"That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish I could catch a cargo of them for my place; it would be an economy. Yes, for years, you see. They never give up. Patience, hope, faith, perseverance; it is the way of all the breed."
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"When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort."
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"Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time."
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"In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves."
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