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successful mislead-us watches
Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right. Charles Caleb Colton
success pride winning
To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.
success achievement conceit
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit.
success hate men
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
success kissing hands
To judge by the event is an error all commit: for in every instance courage, if crowned with success, is heroism; if clouded by defeat, temerity. When Nelson fought his battle in the Sound, it was the result alone that decided whether he was to kiss a hand at court or a rod at a court-martial.
success congratulations adversity
Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.
success achievement silence
Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only our merits, so it silences those enemies from whom alone we can learn our defects.
successful causes flourishing
The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes. Charles Sturt
success eggs laziness
The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already. Charles Spurgeon
triumph chance
Wisdom triumphs over chance. Juvenal
triumph conquer poet
Poets by Death are conquer'd but the wit Of poets triumphs over it. Abraham Cowley
triumph habit
Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits. Clive James
triumph defeat what-is-life
What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power? Ameen Rihani
triumph world unnecessary
I'm afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn't fit that will become unnecessary David Byrne
triumph endure difficult
Of all things that can happen to us, triumph is the most difficult to endure when we are alone. Deprived of witnesses, it shrinks at once. Gabrielle Roy
triumph helping conquest
Triumph cannot help being cruel. Jose Ortega y Gasset
triumph exhausted poland
It has been said that Poland is dead, exhausted, enslaved, but here is the proof of her life and triumph. Henryk Sienkiewicz
triumph genius common
It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
defeat might outcome political time together
The outcome might very well be that together with (Berlusconi?s) defeat this time we may also see his disappearance from the political scene. Franco Pavoncello
defeat
There is something in me-I just can't stand to admit defeat. Beverly Sills
defeated expect marbles
We always expect to win. If you don't expect it you've defeated yourself. You just let the marbles play out.
defeated
Truth cannot be defeated. Edwin Louis Cole
defeated venison
Venison and venery defeated me. Benjamin Franklin
defeat until
We are going to have to be there until we defeat this enemy. Thelma Drake
defeated great victors wars
The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered. George William Russell
defeat jaws nervous whenever
We're always nervous whenever we play this team, because we've had defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.
defeat hope house send
We hope to defeat it in the House and send it back to conference.