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Author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe on perseverance:
"When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that's just the place and time that the tide'll turn."
Source: Oldtown Folks (1869)
Author and poet Maya Angelou on persistence:
"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. The effect you have on others’ lives is the highest expression of your own."
Source: Letter to My Daughter