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“How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you make it less? Square root, as obdurate as a hardwood stump in a pasturenothing but years of effort can extract it. You can't hurry the process. Or pass from arithmetic to algebra; you can't shoulder your way past quadratic equations or ripple through the binomial theorem. Instead, the other way; your feet are impeded in the tangled growth, your pace slackens, you sink and fall somewhere near the binomial theorem with the calculus in sight on the horizon.”

“Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.”

Said Fall Victory Battle Adversity Terror Combination Robes

Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.”

Fall Winning Victory Battle Rising

Author:Napoleon Bonaparte

“Now the time is come, That France must veil her lofty-plumed crest, And let her head fall into England's lap.”

Fall Victory England France Veils Lap Lofty

Book:The Works of Shakspeare; from the Text of the Standard Edition by Isaac Reed

Source: The Works of Shakspeare; from the Text of the Standard Edition by Isaac Reed