"A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat."

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"A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat."

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"There are many victories worse than a defeat."

George Eliot, British Author

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"The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest."

Steven Brust, American Author

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"To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself."

Francis Marion Crawford, American Writer

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"We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate."

George William Russell, Irish Writer

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"A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means."

Sallust, Roman Historian

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"I tried to contribute to the defeat of the Soviets. If I contributed 1%, it is 1% of something enormous."

Edward Teller, American Physicist

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"There is a hangover from a defeat like Denmark - ask any player about when they've had a bad game, it's still in there somewhere in the back of your mind."

Rio Ferdinand, English Athlete

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"We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy."

Thelma Drake, American Politician

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"The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee."

Roy Acuff, American Musician

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"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

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"The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life."

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"Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face."

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"But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later."

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"It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means."

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"Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture."

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"That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom."

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"Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings."

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"The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos."

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"Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs."

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