I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to suc

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature. – John D. Rockefeller

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Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution. – Henry David Thoreau

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