For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again:
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The mark of steadiness is not never falling. It is returning to your feet without surrendering the path.
This proverb is realistic in a way many modern slogans are not. It assumes repeated failure, and then places dignity not in avoiding it but in rising again.
Its force lies in that rhythm of fall and return. Resilience is pictured less as invulnerability than as restoration.
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