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"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield."
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"When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat."
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"Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it."
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"To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself."
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"I would be going until I went over the bounds of reality and was then caught up in a profound wish to be dead without having to go through the shaming defeat of suicide."
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"We don't defeat evil by becoming evil."
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"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield."
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"Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides."
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"There are many victories worse than a defeat."
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"Man is not made for defeat."
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"Defeat should never be a source of discouragement, but rather a fresh stimulus."
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"When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield."
Defeat
"The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice."
Character
"To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination."
Imagination
"Without natural gifts technical rules are useless."
Knowledge
"Verse satire indeed is entirely our own."
Writing
"Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues."
Ambition
"It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort."
Effort
"For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set."
Mind
"When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield."
Hope
"Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly."
Nature
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