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«They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure»
Author: James Allen (Statesman) | Keywords: conquered
«There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.»
Author: Marianne Moore (Poet) | About: War | Keywords: conquered, inward
«Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature»
«Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.»
«The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.»
«Roman, remember that you shall rule the nations by your authority, for this is to be your skill, to make peace the custom, to spare the conquered, and to wage war until the haughty are brought low.»
«The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain -- he is inspired by it. The persistent winner is not discouraged by a problem -- he is challenged by it. Mountains are created to be conquered; adversities are designed to be defeated; problems are sent to be solved. It is better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.»
«There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.»
«There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.»
«The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is of all things most shameful and vile.»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | About: Victory | Keywords: conquer, conquered, shameful, vile, viler, vilest

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