"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."
— Perseverance

January 1, 1970

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Henry Ward Beecher, as quoted in Proverbial Wisdom : Proverbs, Maxims and Ethical Sentences, of Interest to All Classes of Men. (1903) by Abram N. Coleman, p. 233.