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"Ungodliness has always declared war on godliness."
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"We heard the army before we saw it.The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd- like every Patriots fan in New England was charging us with bazookas."
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"We find ourselves constantly in battle in the vast human theaters of conflict."
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"To deny the battle is unwise. To believe that I can fight it without God is insane. To actually do so is suicidal. No wonder so many of us walk around looking like death warmed over."
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"I believe in the battle-whether it's the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle."
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"A wise man thinks it more advantageous not to join the battle than to win."
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"The day my father came to claim me, my mother did not wish for me to go. 'She is a girl,' she said, 'and I do not think that she is yours. I had a thousand other men.' He tossed his spear at my feet and gave my mother the back of his hand across the face, so she began to weep. 'Girl or boy, we fight our battles,' he said, 'but the gods let us choose our weapons.' He pointed to the spear, then to my mother's tears, and I picked up the spear."
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"I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?"
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"General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off."
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"What is important is not to fight, but to fight the right enemy."
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"Nothing can justify war."
War
"I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do."
Poet
"Poetical appreciation is only newly bursting on me."
Art
"Being by the nature of my upbringing, all my energies having been directed to one channel of activity, crippled from other activities and made helpless even to live."
Nature
"I despair of ever writing excellent poetry."
Poetry
"Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way."
Poetry
"You mustn't forget the circumstances I have been brought up in, the little education I have had."
Education
"I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough."
Battle
"I never joined the army for patriotic reasons."
Army
"I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on."
Poetry
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