#sever

When I wanted to know something, I wanted it undistorted by somebody else's imperfect knowledge. ↗

— Milton Erickson

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Our personal stories of perseverance contain immense wisdom that can assist others in finding their way to peace and illumination during difficult times. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

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[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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What'll you do if you can't find a way to cure him?" Seth asked. Dale paused. "I'll never know that day has come, because I'll never stop trying. ↗

— Brandon Mull

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Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back. ↗

— Criss Jami

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We're on a hunt, Cooper. When you're on a hunt, you do whatever it takes. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

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Hardships make or break people. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

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Each of us, having received several hundred dollars, we passed the time gloriously, spending our money freely - never thinking that our lives were risked gaining it. ↗

— Kit Carson

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

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My mother speaks of my step being a source of life-long pain to her, that it is a living death, etc. By the same post I had several letters from anxious relatives, telling me that it was my duty to come home and thus ease my mother's anxiety. ↗

— Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

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