Sunday, August 22, 2010

A Rat May Drown a Nation

King Rat (song)Image via WikipediaPerseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent: beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall. – Sydney Harris




I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back. – Abraham Lincoln



When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems ou could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. – Harriet Beecher Stowe



One may go a long way after one is tired. – French proverb



Perseverance is a silent power that grows irresistibly greater with time. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



By gnawing through a dyke, even a rat may drown a nation. – Edmund Burke



‘Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and obstinacy is a bad one. – Laurence Sterne






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