perseverance
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, vol 1 (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1871), 404.
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, vol 1 (Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1871), 404.