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There are many victories worse than a defeat.
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished.
Our peace must be a peace of victors, not of the vanquished.
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
Victory is a thing of the will.
Victory is a thing of the will.
Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition
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Not one of all the purple host
Who took the flag to-day
Can tell the definition
So clear of victory,
As he, defeated, dying,
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Break agonized and clear.
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
Then should some cloud pass over
The brow of sire or lover,
Think 'tis the shade
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Then should some cloud pass over
The brow of sire or lover,
Think 'tis the shade
By Victory made
Whose wings right o'er us hover!
The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
The will to conquer is the first condition of victory.
