Subdues Quotes
23 quotes by 20 authors
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He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.
— Lord Byron
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Therefore the skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without…
— Sun Tzu
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The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting.
— Sun Tzu
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Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong.
— Homer
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Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he…
— William Carleton
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Patience strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues pride, bridles the tongue, restrains the hand and tramples upon temptations.
— George Horne
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To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished! To endure, and go calmly…
— Joanna Baillie
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My life's long radiant Summer halts at last, And lo! beside my path way I behold Pursuing Autumn glide: nor frost nor cold Has heralded…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Of their bad influence, and their good receives.
— William Wordsworth
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Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
— John Henry Newman
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Whosoever assumes a religious garb pleases not God even a bit. O ye men, understand this clearly in your minds, that God is attained not…
— Guru Gobind Singh
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When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit because their strength is not adequate to resist.
— Mencius
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He who ascends to mountaintops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down…
— Barbara Taylor Bradford
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Colonialism subdues in many dulcet guises. It conquered under the pretext of spreading Christianity, civilization, law and order, to make the world safe for democracy.
— F. Sionil Jose
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Justice is the foremost virtue of the civilizing races. It subdues the barbarous nations, while injustice arouses the weakest.
— Jose Rizal
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Brutes are governed by their appetites and impulses. Savages are but little removed in this respect from brutes. Brutish men and coarse natures are mostly…
— Joseph P. Bradley
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The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully real power by…
— David Josiah Brewer
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He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The…
— Buddha
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The skillful leader subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting; he captures their cities without laying siege to them; he overthrows their kingdom without lengthy…
— Sun Tzu
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Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.
— John Armstrong
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