Quote by Thomas Carlyle
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No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors. – Thomas Carlyle

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For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? – Thomas Carlyle

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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of mans soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. – Thomas Carlyle

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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. – Thomas Carlyle

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Survival is triumph enough. – Harry Crews

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Wherever work is done, victory is attained. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The greatest conqueror is he who overcomes the enemy without a blow. – Chinese Proverb

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There is Jackson with his Virginians, standing like a stone wall. Let us determine to die here, and we will conquer. – Bernard Elliot Bee

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