“To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny”
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Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 388.
“Sometimes the best answers to prayer are the ones God doesn't answer.”
Source: Surprise Endings
“What is the answer?" [ I was silent ] "In that case, what is the question?”
Last words (27 July 1946) as told by Alice B. Toklas in What Is Remembered (1963)
Ruqat-i-Alamgiri, as quoted in Later Mughals : Volume II : 1719-1739 (1922) by Irvine William Irvine http://www.archive.org/details/latermughals02irviuoft
Quotes from late medieval histories
“God withholds Himself from no one who perseveres.”
“Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause — and of obstinacy in a bad one.”
Book I, Ch. 17.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
“One need not hope in order to undertake, nor succeed in order to persevere.”
As quoted in O Canada: An American's Notes on Canadian Culture (1963) by Edmund Wilson
“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.”