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conquest

«The conquest of passion gives ten times more happiness than we can reap from the gratification of it»
Author: Richard Steele, Sr. | About: Passion | Keywords: conquest
«Love, that outreaches to the humblest things;Work that is glad, in what it does and brings;And faith that soars upon unwearied wings.Divine the Powers that on this trio wait.Supreme their conquest, over Time and Fate.Love, Work, and Faith -- these three alone are great.»
«Rest enough for the individual man, too much and too soon, and we call it death. But for man, no rest and no ending. He must go on, conquest beyond conquest. First this little planet and all its winds and ways, and then all the laws of mind and matter that restrain him. Then the planets about him, and, at last, out across immensities to the stars. And when he has conquered all the deep space, and all the mysteries of time, still he will be beginning.»
«Love the quest; marriage the conquest; divorce the inquest»
«Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.»
«Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As soon you apply yourself to orison, you will at once feel your senses gather themselves together: they seem like bees which»
«Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: conquest
«Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.»
«It is so easy to give a naughty boy a slap, overpower him in an instant, and make him obey, that in this world of hurry and distraction, who can possibly spend time to wait for the slow return of his reason and the conquest of himself in the uncertai»
«No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.»

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