Battle
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Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.
I'm convinced that probably everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. It's just one more reason to always try to be kind.
Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
Peace hath higher tests of manhood, than battle ever knew.