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Let war yield to peace, laurels to paeans.
Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort.
Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result.
Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly.
The wife should yield in all things to her lord
No yield to the dead! Never stab the fighter when he's down. Where's the glory, killing the dead twice over?
When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.
Not the sun or summer alone, but every hour and season yields its tribute of delight.
I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born.
Whether they yield or refuse, it delights women to have been asked.
Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her.
The hands have to be like concrete when the horse resists and like butter when he yields.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.
When we yield ourselves completely to God, He gives Himself completely to us.
A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind's face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best
Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
We mortals cross the ocean of this world Each in his average cabin of a life; The bests not big, the worst yields elbowroom.
Truly I have looked in the very heart of darkness and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning.
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.
All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.
Yield, ye arms, to the toga; to civic praise, ye laurels.
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.
There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.
World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age.
You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe.
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.
While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.
No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.
Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.
If I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler.
Let arms yield to the toga, let the [victor's] laurel yield to the [orator's] tongue.
Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.
Amor vincit omnia, et nos cedamus amori. Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love.
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.
The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.
Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.
Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.
Devouring Time and envious Age, all things yield to you; and with lingering death you destroy, step by step, with venomed tooth whatever you attack.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.