"We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life; The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom."
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"No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?"
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"Go on, fair Science; soon to thee Shall Nature yield her idle boast; Her vulgar lingers formed a tree, But thou hast trained it to a post."
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"Truth is like a vast tree which yields more and more fruit the more you nurture it. The deeper the search in the mind of truth, the richer the discovery of the gems buried there."
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"Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar."
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"To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction."
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"A great country needs more people to serve it. A small country needs more people to serve. So, if both shall get what they need, the great country ought to yield."
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"Yield and overcome; Bend and be straight; Empty and be full; Wear out and be new; Have little and gain; Have much and be confused. ...The ancients say, "Yield and overcome." Is that an empty saying? Be really whole, And all things will come to you."
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"If a great country yields to a small country, it will conquer the small country. If a small country yields to a great country, it will be conquered by the great country."
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"And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on."
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"Nature yields her most profound secrets to the person who is determined to uncover them."
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"Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer."
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"The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier."
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"Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked."
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"Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief."
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"That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet."
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"The best Armour of Old Age is a well spent life preceding it; a Life employed in the Pursuit of useful Knowledge, in honourable Actions and the Practice of Virtue; in which he who labours to improve himself from his Youth, will in Age reap the happiest Fruits of them; not only because these never leave a Man, not even in the extremest Old Age; but because a Conscience bearing Witness that our Life was well-spent, together with the Remembrance of past good Actions, yields an unspeakable Comfort to the Soul"
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"Let the soldier yield to the civilian."
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"Someone once said that nothing costs more and yields less benefit than revenge,” Aomame said. “Winston Churchill. As I recall it, though, he was making excuses for the British Empire’s budget deficits. It has no moral significance."
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"It is not the mere study of the Law, but to become eminent in the profession of it, which is to yield honor and profit."
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