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No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.
Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished.
Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished.
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it.
Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition
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Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition
So clear of victory,
As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Break agonized and clear.
Victory is a thing of the will.
Victory is a thing of the will.
Woe to the vanquished!
[Lat., Vae victis.]
Woe to the vanquished!
[Lat., Vae victis.]
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
Victory is sweetest when you've known defeat.
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all read more
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves...self-discipline with all of them came first.
