Jacob Riis Quotes

1849–1914, American photographer, journalist and activist · Wikipedia · Wikidata
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“When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.”
VerifiedOriginally from The Making of an American (1901), p. 253 · evidenceDetails & citePerseverance
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“Some defeats are only installments to victory.”
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