Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
HS Harriet Beecher StoweAuthor & abolitionist · 1811–1896这句箴言的含义
The hardest moment is often the one just before things turn. The counsel is to hold on precisely when giving up feels most reasonable, because that is where the tide so often changes.
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American author and abolitionist whose novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin galvanized public feeling against slavery.
This line is among the quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe that readers return to on 动力 — a small, portable reminder to carry into the morning.
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