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Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind
If you can accept losing, you can't win.
If you can accept losing, you can't win.
Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
Who thought he'd won
The field as certain as a gun.
Who thought he'd won
The field as certain as a gun.
Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.
We have met the enemy and they are ours.
We have met the enemy and they are ours.
The victorious cause pleased the gods, but the victory pleased
Cato.
[Lat., Victrix cause Diis placuit, sed victa read more
The victorious cause pleased the gods, but the victory pleased
Cato.
[Lat., Victrix cause Diis placuit, sed victa Catoni.]
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.
Expect victory and you make victory.
Expect victory and you make victory.
