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'''Perseverance''' is the quality of continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
==Bible and Christian Quotes==
{{Bible quote|The waters wear the stones.|book=Job|chap=14|verse=19|version=KJV}}
== Quotes ==
* Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
** [[Plutarch]], ''Of the Training of Children''.
* The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
** [[John Lyly]], ''Euphues'', p. 81. Arber's Reprint (1579).
* So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse<br>Met ever, and to shameful silence brought,<br>Yet gives not o'er, though desperate of success.
** [[John Milton]], ''[[Paradise Regained]]'' (1671), Book IV, line 21.
* ''Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed sæpe cadendo.''
** The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.
** Quoted in the Menagiana, 1713. Probably first to use it was Richard, Monk of S. Victor; Paris.
==See Also==
* [[Forgiveness]]
{{Virtues}}
[[Category:Virtues]]
==Bible and Christian Quotes==
{{Bible quote|The waters wear the stones.|book=Job|chap=14|verse=19|version=KJV}}
== Quotes ==
* Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
** [[Plutarch]], ''Of the Training of Children''.
* The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
** [[John Lyly]], ''Euphues'', p. 81. Arber's Reprint (1579).
* So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse<br>Met ever, and to shameful silence brought,<br>Yet gives not o'er, though desperate of success.
** [[John Milton]], ''[[Paradise Regained]]'' (1671), Book IV, line 21.
* ''Gutta cavat lapidem non vi, sed sæpe cadendo.''
** The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.
** Quoted in the Menagiana, 1713. Probably first to use it was Richard, Monk of S. Victor; Paris.
==See Also==
* [[Forgiveness]]
{{Virtues}}
[[Category:Virtues]]