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"What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious."
"Television is a triumph of equipment over people."
"To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to recreate life out of life."
"In ourselves are triumph and defeat."
"He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable."
"A noble soul spreads even over a face in which the architectonic beauty is wanting an irresistible grace, and a often even triumphs over the natural disfavor."
"In the West you have every opportunity for civilization to triumph."
"There is a deeper pleasure in following truth to the scaffold or the cross, than in joining the multitudinous retinue, and mingling our shouts with theirs, when victorious error celebrates its triumphs."
"One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is."
"He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs."
"In eloquence, the great triumphs of the art are when the orator is lifted above himself; when consciously he makes himself the mere tongue of the occasion and the hour, and says what cannot but be said. Hence the term "abandonment" to describe the self- surrender of the orator. Not his will, but the principle on which he is horsed, the great connection and crisis of events, thunder in the ear of the crowd."
"All great successes are the triumph of persistence."
"...love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day."
"She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox."
"I'm a champion, so I turn tragedy to triumph."
"Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure"
"The alternate triumphs of different parties ... make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels."
"I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil."
"A person of your century: Great persons are of their time. Not all were born into a period worthy of them, and many so born failed to benefit by it. Some merited a better century, for all that is good does not always triumph. Fashions have their periods and even the greatest virtues, their styles. But the philosopher, being ageless, has one advantage: Should this not prove the right century, many to follow will."
"Teenagers are my life and my triumph. I'd be nowhere without them."
