Quotes with battle-wounds

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  • George Eliot Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • John Stuart Mill As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • George S. Patton Battle is an orgy of disorder.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • Philo of Alexandria Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
    Philo of Alexandria
    Greek Jewish philosopher (20 - 50)
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  • Barry Sanders Christianity affects your whole life. I feel I'm more competitive, a better player, but off the field is where there is always a battle.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Wendell Phillips Christianity is a battle not a dream.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • Gordon Sumner Convince an enemy, convince him that he's wrong. To win a bloodless battle, the victory is long. A simple act of faith, reason over might. To blow up his children would only prove him right.
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  • Plautus Courage in danger is half the battle.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Agatha Christie Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon Economy is half the battle of life. It is not so hard to earn money as to spend it well.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Alice Walker For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Anne Edwards For the entire state of Georgia, having the premiere of Gone With the Wind on home ground was like winning the Battle of Atlanta 75 years late.
    Anne Edwards
    American author (1927 - )
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  • Charles de Gaulle France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Cal Thomas Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Buddy Wakefield He's got a lead brain. It's a battle magnet. He carries it around by the guilt straps...don't laugh, you didn't see the size of the blizzard that birthed him.
    Poetry Healing Herman Hesse
    Buddy Wakefield
    American poet and actor (1974 - )
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  • Beth Ditto Here is my prescription to heal all wounds. Watch the film 'Funny Girl' at least five times, eat at least 45 chocolate bars, and hang out with all those friends you blew off to hang out with your ex. I truly believe that, through a combination of Nutella, old pals and Barbra Streisand, we can achieve happiness and, very probably, world peace.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Marquis de Sade Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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