perseverance
perseverance
The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Confucius: The Analects
All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Worstward Ho
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II
I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition. Something – the eternal ‘what’s the use?’ – sets its bronze barrier across every avenue that I open up in the realm of hypothesis.
Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour