idleness vs perseverance

idleness

noun
  • Groundlessness; worthlessness; triviality; vanity; frivolity. 

  • The state of being idle; inactivity. 

  • The state of being indolent; indolence. 

perseverance

noun
  • Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure. 

How often have the words idleness and perseverance occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )