Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.
Flinch not, neither give up nor despair, if the achieving of every act in accordance with right principle is not always continuous with thee.
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing)
Meditations. v. 9.
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- attributed · historical anthology
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- c. 150 AD · classical
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