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Men Quotes by T.E. Lawrence
- Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness…
- In peace-armies discipline meant the hunt, not of an average but of an absolute; the hundred per cent standard in which the ninety-nine were played…
- They taught me that no man could be their leader except he ate the ranks' food, wore their clothes, lived level with them, and yet…
- All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that…
- Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had…
- It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as…
- I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into my hands/and wrote my will across the sky in stars
- I had dropped one form and not taken on the other, and was become like Mohammed's coffin in our legend, with a resultant feeling of…
- Many men would take the death-sentence without a whimper, to escape the life-sentence which fate carries in her other hand.
- All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that…
- This, therefore, is a faded dream of the time when I went down into the dust and noise of the Eastern market-place, and with my…
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