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For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.


Oliver Goldsmith

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TACITUS He that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day.
TRADITIONAL PROVERB He that fights and runs away, Will live to fight another day; For he that runs may fight again...
ALEXANDER POPE He that fights and runs away will live to fight another day.
OLD ENGLISH RHYME Rise O fallen fighters, rise and take your stance again, He who fight and run away, live to fight an...
BOB MARLEY The man who runs may fight again.
MENANDER I'm a little wounded but I'm not slain; I will lay me down for to bleed awhile, Then I'll rise and f...
JOHN DRYDEN (Santos) can fight. Henry fights better when he knows he's pushed and challenged, when he has to con...
CARL MORETTI We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.
NATHANAEL GREENE Oft he that doth abide Is cause of his own paine, But he that flieth in good tide Perhap...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR To Oliver Goldsmith, A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian, who left scarcely any style of writing untou...
SAMUEL JOHNSON To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody els...
E. E. (EDWARD ESTLIN) CUMMINGS to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else...
EE CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else...
EE CUMMINGS To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybod...
E E CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody e...
E. E. CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you somebody el...
CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybod...
E E CUMMINGS To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everyb...
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BRENé BROWN Successful people are people who know how to fight, they are people who can fight for success and wi...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Live to revel in just another twilight. Life may sink and disappear along with the sunset never to r...
MUNIA KHAN There is only war in love,” he says. “If anyone tells you otherwise, they’re lying. The consta...
TARRYN FISHER He who would live must fight, he who will not fight in this world where eternal struggle is the law...
UNKNOWN He who would live must fight, he who will not fight in this world where eternal struggle is the la...
UNKNOWN He who would live must fight, he who will not fight in this world where eternal struggle is the la...
UNKNOWN He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle i...
ADOLF HITLER A warrior fears the battle he missed. More than any fight he can make his own, he fears the fight th...
MARK LAWRENCE It does, of course, open another front for us to fight, We can fight a multi-front battle the same a...
BOB BARR I have been wounded but not yet slain. I shall lie here and bleed awile. Then I shall rise and fight...
VINCE LOMBARDI To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you l...
E.E. CUMMINGS Man does not fight because he has arms. He has arms because he fights
UNKNOWN All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battl...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Don King is my promoter, and I want to fight for him. I want to fight in the big fights, and hopeful...
MARK DE MORI Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight ...
D.H. LAWRENCE We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the ba...
MAHATMA GANDHI Depression isn't a war you win. It's a battle you fight every day. You never stop, never get to rest...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Strength, is found in those who rise and fight, against tyranny.
ENRIQUE VEGA He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.
SUN TZU he who knows when he can fight and when he cannot , will be victorious .
SUN TZU But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!
CHARLOTTE BRONTë People believe that if Jones wins, he'll retire, ... If Tarver wins, he should fight me again unless...
GLEN JOHNSON Men may fight the battle, but women wage the war.
KATLYN CHARLESWORTH I stuck up for him. I said Joe is a great champion. We went to Manchester to pay him the respect and...
GARY SHAW He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
SUN TZU Fight ever on: this earthly stuff if used God's way will be enough. Face to the firing line o friend...
EDWIN MARKHAM Everyone who fights always fight with a purpose in mind.
SUNDAY ADELAJA One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.
SUN TZU That's the big mistake a lot of people make when they wonder how soldiers can put their lives on the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS The horse is sore but he is fine and will be okay. He had a nasty cut underneath on his tummy but wi...
FRANK BERRY The battle of the sexes and you're winning hands down.
MARGARET WAY The strongest amongst you, is not the one who defeats his opponents in a fight but he who can contro...
PROPHET MUHAMMED He never gives up. He just fights until his body can't fight anymore. As an older player, you don't ...
ANDRE CALDWELL Everybody knows when I'm in a fight, I'm trying to knock my opponent out. I have a lot of respect fo...
ERIC ESCH Anybody can learn to think, or believe, or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel....
E.E. CUMMINGS Deep in his heart, every man longs for a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to resc...
JOHN ELDREDGE Looking back, I couldn't get enough fights because Don King owned most of the top 10 fighters, a...
GERRY COONEY What the American people want to see in their president is somebody who not necessarily can win ever...
BERNIE SANDERS He who flies at the right time can fight again. [Lat., Celuy qui fuit bonne heure Peut combatt...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR There are some of us... who will fight and fight and fight again to save the Party we love.
HUGH GAITSKELL Harrison Ford may be getting old, but he can fight like a 28 year old man
HARRISON FORD Raheem's a difficult fighter. He never really wanted to fight. He threw punches and moved away, and ...
ERIK MORALES To withdraw isn't a sign of weakness... It is a sign that a man knows the limits of his capabilities...
LIONEL SUGGS You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are ...
AL GOLDSTEIN Every time a fighter comes out to fight me, this is almost a world-title fight. This may be the clos...
ANDRE WARD Live to fight another day was an expression that did not take nto account the loved one who would di...
ROBERT LIPARULO Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of defeat, an...
WILLIAM MORRIS Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into ...
BERNARD LAW MONTGOMERY It gives me strength to have somebody to fight for; I can never fight for myself, but, for others, I...
EMILIE AUTUMN In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain; But the Lord is risen to-day, ...
MARTIN LUTHER In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offense was slain; But the Lord is risen to-day, Christ hat...
MARTIN LUTHER Brambleclaw dipped his head. “The battle is won,” he growled. “The clearing is ours. Do you co...
ERIN HUNTER But I don't shut up and I don't die.
I live
and fight, maddening
those who rule my co...
OTTO RENé CASTILLO We wanted to make the Lacy fight early but they insisted he wasn't ready and he would fight Reid fir...
FRANK WARREN Fight ever on: this earthly stuff
If used God’s way will be enough.
Face to the firing...
EDWIN MARKHAM Once you are a warrior, you must live like one. You can't be afraid to fight against and destroy any...
MELITA TESSY Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal...
ADOLF HITLER Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal ...
ADOLF HITLER To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight th...
E. E. CUMMINGS Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, w...
SUN TZU To live is to fight, to preserve life is to fight everything that man stands for.
PATRICK NESS And he is dead who will not fight; / And who dies fighting has increase.
JULIAN GRENFELL The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value whi...
ALBERT CAMUS Victor was just so much stronger than him and put on pressure till the end. He looked good. He was v...
IGOR GOLOUBEV Life is a fight from the minute you take your first breath to the moment you exhale your last. You h...
RONDA ROUSEY Not once did we discuss that we'd have to fight the Social Security battle all over again.
BRAD WOODHOUSE You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
MARGARET THATCHER It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could...
J.K. ROWLING Leadership is standing with your people. People say you have to live to fight another day, but somet...
LEYMAH GBOWEE We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart;...
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") They may fight with us, but they don't fight for us.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Where commerce and capitalism are invloved, often times, morality and honor sink to the bottom-Olive...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH There is two rules to win your battle,Fight smart & fight alone
MOHAMMED SEKOUTY I had a dream after the fight. I won the fight. But in my fight record I was losing. Not just me but...
VITALI KLITSCHKO Oliver Kahn has shown once again that he is a great sportsman.
OLIVER BIERHOFF Well, there you go. And that would be more than he got for Calvin Brock, but his team was turning th...
AUDLEY HARRISON He's upset of course. He believes he never did anything wrong and he's going to fight this.
LEONARD SHARENOW He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
SOCRATES If the red slayer thinks he slays, / Or if the slain think he is slain, / They know not well the sub...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

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OLIVER GOLDSMITH How blest is he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH I love everything that is old; old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without era...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH Who can direct when all pretend to know?
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH The best way to make your audience laugh is to start laughing yourself.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The malicious sneer is improperly called laughter.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH Good counsel rejected returns to enrich the givers bosom.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH Crime generally punishes itself.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH But in his duty prompt at every call, he watched and wept, he prayed and felt for all.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The doctor found, when she was dead, her last disorder mortal.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH In all the silent manliness of grief.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH Fear guides more than gratitude.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
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no spicy fragrance while they grow;
but crush'd or trodden to the groun...
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By holding out to tire each other down;
The swain ...
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH A night-cap deck'd his brows instead of bay, A cap by night,--a stocking all the day.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH Every pang that rends the heart.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH His conduct still right with his argument wrong.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH The king himself has follow'd her When she has walk'd before.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound. And news much older than their ale went round.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH And the weak soul, within itself unbless'd, Leans for all pleasure on another's breast.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he: Ful...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Silence gives consent.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Heroes themselves had fallen behind! --Whene'er he went before.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose, Breathes the keen air, and carols as he goes.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam, His first best country ever is at home.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace the day's disasters in his morning face.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH I have spent my life laboriously doing nothing. [Lat., Vitam perdidi laboricose agendo.]
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,
Adorns and cheers our way;
And still, as darker grows...
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH But in his duty prompt at every call, He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madame Blaize, Who never wanted a good word-- ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The man recover'd of the bite, The dog it was that died.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH Hoards after hoards his rising raptures fill; Yet still he sighs, for hoards are wanting still.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH But winter lingering chills the lap of May.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH Round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ill a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Prince...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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OLIVER GOLDSMITH Those that think must govern those that toil.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Gay, sprightly, land of mirth and social ease Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The jests of the rich are ever successful.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather t...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants a...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her l...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The canvas glow'd beyond ev'n nature warm; The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine
OLIVER GOLDSMITH They say women and music should never be dated
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The very pink of perfection.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Aromatic plants bestow no spicy fragrance while they grow; but crush'd or trodden to the ground, dif...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH You may all go to pot.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales
OLIVER GOLDSMITH I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more s...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Still to ourselves in every place consigned, / Our own felicity we make or find.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH This is Liberty-Hall, gentlemen.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement
OLIVER GOLDSMITH The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them
OLIVER GOLDSMITH