"Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to……" — Samuel Griswold Goodrich
"Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars."
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