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Great effects come of industry and perseverance; for audacity doth almost bind and mate the weaker sort of minds.
Great effects come of industry and perseverance; for audacity doth almost bind and mate the weaker sort of minds.
Approximate author period: c. 1593 AD · renaissance
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- Francis Bacon
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- Approximate author period: c. 1593 AD · renaissance
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 197 · printed citation: Bacon · subject: Perseverance
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Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.
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