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"Perseverance is an active principle, and cannot continue to operate but under the influence of desire."
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"In order to fulfil our life mission we also need to develop perseverance."

"Life is a personal race. Run the race of life with all endurance."

"Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory."

"It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them."

"A man going straight towards his goals overcomes difficulties and obstacles in his paths, and turns them into benefits."

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage."

"The gospel of the kingdom talks about perseverance."

"Day and night, their frail and crippled ships defy the tempest."

"You can strive in life with courage, faith and hope."

"One is to cross this ocean in the form of obstinacy. We are standing on this side of obstinacy and we have to go to the other side. If someone becomes instrumental in removing your obstinacy; do not be disturbed about it, consider him to be extremely beneficial and undergo that experience with equanimity."
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"It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn."


"Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much."


"He has no right to his life when his duty calls him to resign it. Other men are bound... to deprive him of life or liberty, if that should appear in any case to be indispensably necessary to prevent a greater evil."


"The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself."


"Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity."


"My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image."


"As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to be rejoiced in, than lamented, that various reading should lead him into new trains of thinking."


"Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him."
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