It is perseverance that prevails. [ Proverb ]

Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales.
And the good suffers while the bad prevails. [ Homer ]

Scream as we may at the bad, the good prevails. [ Bartol ]

They fix attention, heedless of your pain, With oaths like rivets forced into the brain; And e'en when sober truth prevails throughout, They swear it, till affirmance breeds a doubt. [ Cowper ]

To behold, is not necessary to observe, and the power of comparing and combining is only to be obtained by education. It is much to be regretted that habits of exact observation are not cultivated in our schools; to this deficiency may be traced much of the fallacious reasoning, the false philosophy which prevails. [ Humboldt ]