The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle – victorious.
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
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