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==Bible and Christian Quotes==
==Bible and Christian Quotes==
{{Bible quote|The waters wear the stones.|book=Job|chap=14|verse=19|version=KJV}}
{{Bible quote|The waters wear the stones.|book=Job|chap=14|verses=19|version=KJV}}
== Quotes ==
== Quotes ==
* Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
* Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.
** [[Plutarch]], ''Of the Training of Children''.
** [[Plutarch]], ''Of the Training of Children''.
* We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth New Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times.
** [[George Washington]], letter to Major General Philip Schuyler, July 15, 1777. — The Writings of George Washington, ed. John C. Fitzpatrick, vol. 8, p. 408 (1933). This letter concerns the loss of [[Fort Ticonderoga]].
* The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
* The soft droppes of rain perce the hard marble; many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.
** The drop hollows out the stone not by strength, but by constant falling.
** 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.
** Quoted in the Menagiana, 1713. Probably first to use it was Richard, Monk of S. Victor; Paris.
* Attempt the end and never stand to doubt;<br>Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.
** [[Robert Herrick]], Seeke and Finde.
* When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,<br>When the road you're trudging seems all up hill,<br>… When care is pressing you down a bit,<br>Rest, if you must—but don't you quit.<br>… Often the goal is nearer than<br>It seems to a faint and faltering man,<br>Often the struggler has given up<br>When he might have captured the victor's cup.
** Author unknown, "Don't Quit". Reported in Hazel Felleman, ''The Best Loved Poems of the [[American]] People'' (1936, reprinted 1957), p. 113–14.
==See Also==
==See Also==
* [[Forgiveness]]
* [[Forgiveness]]
{{Virtues}}
{{Virtues}}
==References==
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[[Category:Virtues]]
[[Category:Virtues]]