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• Men in excess of happiness or misery are equally inclined to severity. Witness conquerors and monks! It is mediocrity alone, and a mixture of prosperous and adverse fortune that inspire us with lenity and pity.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Inspire, Mixtures

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• Every combat is the bloody and destructive measuring of the strength of forces, physical and moral; whoever at the close has the greatest amount of both left is the conqueror.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Moral, Force, Combat

  Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “On War: Vom Kriege: fog of war”, p.169, Aegitas

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• Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

  Epictetus

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Fall

  Epictetus (2009). “The Enchiridion, or Handbook: With A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus”, p.41, The Floating Press

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• The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.

  Plautus

  Men, Forever, Soul

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• The enemy of the moment is not as important as our own inner weakness. If this is not mended we are already defeated, though no foreign conqueror stands within our walls.

  Roger Zelazny

  Wall, Enemy, Important

  Roger Zelazny (1978*). “Sign of the unicorn. The hand of Oberon. The Courts of Chaos”

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• Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of forests all, The aspin good for staves, the cypress funeral, The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the fir that weepest still, The yew obedient to the bender's will, The birch for shafts, the sallow for the mill, The myrrh sweet-bleeding in the bitter wound, The warlike beech, the ash for nothing ill, The fruitful olive, and the platane round, The carver holm, the maple seldom inward sound.

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Kings, Funeral

  1590 The Faerie Queen, bk.1, canto 1, stanzas 8-9. plantan=plane tree; holme=holly.

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• No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Victory, Doe, Shows

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• Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls. Live in this, and thou wilt die a conqueror; yea, thou wilt, through the good providence of God, live to see thy lust dead at thy feet.

  John Owen

  Feet, Blood, Sick

  John Owen (2001). “Temptation and Sin”, p.79, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• How soon are we broken on the soft pillow of ease! Adam in paradise was overcome, when Job on the dunghill was a conqueror.

  Thomas Watson

  Jobs, Broken, Overcoming

  Thomas Watson, Hamilton Smith (2009). “Extracts from the Writings of Thomas Watson”, p.39, Scripture Truth

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• He is twice a conqueror, who can restrain himself in the hour of triumph.

  Publilius Syrus

  Triumph, Hours

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• One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a magistrate; but he must die a man. The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality, to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations - the relations between the creature and his Creator.

  Daniel Webster

  Kings, Men, Individuality

  DANIEL WEBSTER (1853). “THE WORKS OF DANIEL WEBSTER; VOLUME II”, p.301

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• Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and courtier. But the merchant, like all other industrious men, seeks his benefit only in his talent, in virtue of freely arrived at agreements, and appealing to faith and the laws.

  Augustin Thierry

  Philosophy, Men, Law

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• Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.

  Albert Camus

  Artist, Able, Modern

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.275, Vintage

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• The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Military, Illusion, Capacity

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1826, e-artnow

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• We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Powerful, Opportunity, Political

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3417, Delphi Classics

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• We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances it would be the kingdom of the profoundest mediocrity and Chinaism); we rejoice in all men, who like ourselves love danger, war and adventure, who do not make compromises, nor let themselves be captured, conciliated and stunted; we count ourselves among the conquerors; we ponder over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery for every strengthening and elevation of the type "man" also involves a new form of slavery.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Adventure, Mean

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “The Joyful Wisdom”, p.248, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Kings, Sacrifice

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• A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.

  Albert Camus

  Office, Clerks, Common

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.68, Vintage

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• I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, and most ruthless champion there's ever been. There's no one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No, I'm Alexander, he's no Alexander. I'm the best ever! There's never been anybody as ruthless! I'm Sonny Liston, I'm Jack Dempsey. There's no one like me. I'm from their cloth. There's no one that can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want your heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah!

  Mike Tyson

  Children, Fear, Heart

  YouTube Chanel "sheltonn"/ "Mike Tyson" (Interview with Jim Gray), www.youtube.com. February 5, 2006.

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• Mind is dual, it always divides things into polar opposites: the conqueror and the conquered, the observer and the observed, the object and the subject, the day and the night. It goes on dividing things which are not divided. Neither is the day divided from the night, nor is birth divided from death. They are one energy. But mind goes on dividing everything into polarities, opposites. Nothing is opposite in existence; every contradiction is only apparent. Deep down all contradictions are meeting together.

  Rajneesh

  Night, Opposites, Mind

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• I think that the heroism which at this day would make on us the impression of Epaminondas and Phocion must be that of a domestic conqueror. He who shall bravely and gracefully subdue this Gorgon of Convention and Fashion, and show men how to lead a clean, handsome and heroic life amid the beggarly elements of our cities and villages; whoso shall teach me how to eat my meat and take my repose and deal with men, without any shame following, will restore the life of man to splendor, and make his own name dear to all history.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, Men, Thinking

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• Eventhough you are not equipped,
  keep searching:
  equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord.
  Whoever you see engaged in search,
  become her friend and cast your head in front of her,
  for choosing to be a neighbour of seekers,
  you become one yourself;
  protected by conquerors,
  you will yourself learn to conquer.
  If an ant seeks the rank of Solomon,
  don't smile contemptuously upon its quest.
  And of all your skills, and wealth and handicraft,
  Weren't they first merely a thought and a quest?

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Skills

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• Jefferson never entertained the folly that he was of immigrant stock. He considered the English settlers of America courageous conquerors, much like his Saxon forebears, to whom he compared them. To Jefferson, early Americans were the contemporary carriers of the Anglo-Saxon project.

  Ilana Mercer

  America, Courageous, Projects

  "The Declaration No Longer Expresses 'The American Mind'". www.americanthinker.com. July 4, 2017.

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• I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts.

  William Benton Clulow

  Excellence, Intellectual, Battle

  William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.295

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• The resurrection is the revelation to chosen witnesses of the fact that Jesus who died on the cross is indeed king - conqueror of death and sin, Lord and Savior of all. The resurrection is not the reversal of a defeat but the proclamation of a victory. The King reigns from the tree. The reign of God has indeed come upon us, and its sign is not a golden throne but a wooden cross.

  Lesslie Newbigin

  Jesus, Kings, Tree

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