“Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I'll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.” IfsForceAnswersVirtueTaughtSpeechPatienceAngryConquerDesertForbearanceVanquish Book:The Canterbury tales Source: The Canterbury tales
“Love is the weapon which Omnipotence reserved to conquer rebel man when all the rest had failed. Reason he parries; fear he answers blow for blow; future interest he meets with present pleasure; but love, that sun against whose melting beams the winter cannot stand--that soft subliming slumber which wrestles down the giant, there is not one human being in a million, nor a thousand men in all earth's huge quintillion, whose clay heart is hardened against love.” MenLoveHumansHeartReasonEarthInterestHuman BeingsAnswersLove IsPleasureMillionsSunHugeThousandWeaponsWinterBlowConquerGiantsRebelClayMeltingReservedBeamSlumberHardenedOmnipotenceAgainst Love Author:Martin Farquhar Tupper
“Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!” MenShouldGodLawFallUniverseWinningAnswersCenturyFrontsBattleInfiniteConquerNineteenth CenturyWaterlooBonaparteWellington Author:Victor Hugo
“I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before I turn away--it is the hour of fate, And they who follow me reach every state Mortals desire, and conquer every foe Save death, but those who doubt of hesitate, Condemned to failure, penury and woe, Seek me in vain and uselessly implore, I answer not, and I return no more.” IfsStatesDesireTurnsOpportunityHoursSleepAnswersDoubtFateReturnMortalsConquerVainGatesWoeFoeFollow MeFeastingOpportunity Knocking Author:John James Ingalls
“I think it's a real gift to be faced with man's potential for extreme cruelty but also man's resilience and the fact that love really does conquer everything. It's the only answer to these kinds of atrocities and it's not a passive thing.” ThinkingMenKindDoeRealFactsAnswersExtremesResilienceCrueltyConquerPassiveAtrocities Author:Lupita Nyong'o