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For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel. ↗

— William Penn

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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

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Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. ↗

— Washington Irving

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form. ↗

— Allen Tate

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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature . ↗

— Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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