To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory.
Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.
As long as I retain my feeling and my passion for Nature, I can partly soften or subdue my other passions and resist or endure those of others.
The creator does not create only for the pleasure of creating but . . . he also desires to subdue other minds.
Judo is a study of techniques with which you may kill if you wish to kill, injure if you wish to injure, subdue if you wish to subdue, and, when attacked, defend yourself
I've firmly come to the conclusion that there are no 'themes' for me anymore. I can't be told who to hate, who to fight, who to subdue - I only see an 'us' in my heart.
Christ wants to slay reason and subdue the arrogance of the Jews.
Subdue your heart to match your circumstances.
Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.
Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.
The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.
wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade.
My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue!), A horrid chasm disclosed.
We love and live in power; it is the spirit's end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life.
The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.
A soul-winner can do nothing without God. He must cast himself
on the Invisible, or be a laughing-stock to the devil, who regards
with utter disdain all who think to subdue human nature with mere words and arguments.
The frequent repetition of miracles serves to provoke, where it does not subdue, the reason of mankind.
Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.
Cuba forces in Angola gave a real shot in the arm to the liberation movements, and it also was a lesson to the white South Africans that the end is coming. They can't just hope to subdue the continent on racist grounds.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.
To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.
From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue as the wind.
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.
Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.
During dad's time, we didn't have many sabhas to nurture plays. Later soaps threatened to subdue theatre.
Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom.
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.
If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country.
Common sense will tell us, that
the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the
most improper to defend us.
There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.
Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear rule over Nature.
Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.
Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn.
God does not discipline us to subdue us, but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness.
Still, it is not perverse to wonder whether the spectacle of America, currently learning a lesson - one that conservatives should not have to learn on the job - about the limits of power to subdue an unruly world, has emboldened many enemies.
There's just a spirit about you that it's such a beautiful art form in which you can implement strategy in order to subdue another individual. And I really feel like that's in wrestling and UFC; we're kind of - we collaborate in that way.
Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.
Avain attempt to subdue that unsubduable country.
To Subdue an enemy without fighting is the greatest of skills
A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.
The more I think of all that I have seen in the Confederate States, the more I feel inclined to say...'How can you subdue such a nation as this!'
All good government must begin at home. It is useless to make good laws for bad people; what is wanted is this, to subdue the tyranny of the human heart.
In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.
It is useless to subdue the flesh by abstinence, unless one gives up his irregular life, and abandons vices which defile his soul.
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
A mightier love for the Son of God, to overpower and subdue and lead captive these wayward and truant affections of the natural heart - this is what is needed.
Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice.
Only a habit can subdue another habit.
Subdue your passion or it will subdue you.
It is God alone who can subdue and govern the unruly wills of sinful men.
Age should fly concourse, cover in retreat defects of judgment, and the will subdue; walk thoughtful on the silent, solemn shore of that vast ocean it must sail so soon.
Thus those skilled in war subdue the enemy's army without battle .... They conquer by strategy.
The arbitrary division between church and state... is used, as an easily identifiable rallying point, to subdue the opinions of that vast body of citizens who represent those with religious convictions.
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