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retreats

«My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I am attacking.»
«I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard.»
«Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.»
«How does life become totally painful? By total retreat. Total noninspection becomes total pain.[?]But existence is basically composed of a very few truths onto which have hung a great many artificialities and which man has adorned with enormous numbers of lies. And man is prisoner of his own shadows. Now one of the things you can do with man is to get him to look up and find out that he can look through the shadows and look at the shadows and find out what they are.»
«In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.»
«Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.»
Author: William Orville Douglas | About: Honor | Keywords: retreats, valor
«DRAGOON, n. A soldier who combines dash and steadiness in so equal measure that he makes his advances on foot and his retreats on horseback.»
«Although it's a long time on the road, it is on the road and coming. I tell thee it never retreats, and never stops.»
Author: Charles Dickens | Keywords: on the road, retreats
«The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and whi»
«In this Revolution no plans have been written for retreat.»

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