"Yes, Prayer-the aspiration of the soul freed absolutely from the body-bears all forces within it, and applies them to the constant and Perseverant union of the Visible and the Invisible.
"Seraphita"
Honore de Balzac
Watt was a dull scholar, notwithstanding the stories told about his precocity; but he was, what was better, patient and Perseverant, and it was by such qualities, and by his carefully cultivated inventiveness, that he was enabled to perfect his steam- engine.
"Self Help"
Samuel Smiles