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• Still his sanguine spirit led him to persevere, and there is no saying how long he might have continued to spend his days and his energies in felling trees and sowing among the stumps and hoping for better days, had not his views been changed and his thoughts turned into another channel by a letter CHAPTER TWO THE LETTER, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES One fine spring morning Jack was sitting, smoking his pipe after breakfast, at the door of his log cabin, looking pensively out upon the tree-stump-encumbered field which constituted his farm. —  Fort Desolation Red Indians and Fur Traders of Rupert's Land
• But in mining the best of men may be obliged to demand assistance, because, when tributers work on hopefully day after day and week after week on bad ground, they must have advances to enable them to persevere--not being able to subsist on air! —  Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines
• To persevere was the very proof of his election, the sure evidence of right thinking. —  Beginnings of the American People
• He should rather persevere, and be confident, that no matter how numerous and perplexing the difficulties that confront him may appear, he is continually assisted and guided through Divine Confirmations. —  Directives from the Guardian
• Let no one ever despair of a good cause for want of coadjutors; let him persevere, persevere, persevere, and God will raise him up friends and assistants! —  Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century

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