Quotes 61 till 80 of 148.
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It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by ;degrees, the consequences will be the same.
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It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
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It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
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It's a battle to be seen in the world of advertisers and in the world of business as a serious force.
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It's so funny that people specify that year because in a way it was the biggest battle for me health wise.
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Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.
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Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.
Nobody Knows My Name (1961) -
Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.
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Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish it's source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.
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Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
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My life is a battle.
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Next to a lost battle, nothing is so sad as a battle that has been won.
Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
Irish military leader and statesman, defeated Napoleon (1769 - 1852) -
No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
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No man should ever display his bravery unless he is prepared for battle, nor bear the marks of defiance, until he has experienced the abilities of his enemy.
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Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.
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Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863 -
Of all the passions that inspire a man in a battle, none, we have to admit, is so powerful and so constant as the longing for honor and reknown.
On War (1832)
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