March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

The passage urges steadfast perseverance: progress—moral, spiritual, or personal—requires forward motion despite hardship. “March on” frames life as a purposeful journey, while “perfection” suggests an ideal of continual self-refinement rather than a final, easily reached state. The “thorns” and “sharp stones” acknowledge that pain and obstacles are intrinsic to the path; the counsel is not to deny suffering but to refuse being halted by it. In a Gibran-like idiom, the quote reads as a compact piece of spiritual exhortation: courage is practiced through movement, and growth is inseparable from the roughness of experience.