Liberty is a progressive conquest. [ Gueroult ]
A peace is of the nature of a conquest;
For then both parties nobly are subdued.
And neither party loser. [ William Shakespeare ]
It is cruelty in war that buyeth conquest. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Have I in conquest stretched mine arm so far
To be afeard to tell gray-beards the truth? [ Jul. Caes ]
It is clemency that makes the absolute conquest. [ Proverb ]
Cruelty in war buyeth conquest at the dearest price. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love. [ Amiel ]
All must yield to the weight of years; conquest is not difficult for time. [ Calderon ]
Death makes no conquest of this conqueror; For now he lives in Fame, though not in life. [ William Shakespeare ]
Death is not the monarch of the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest, he loses a subject. [ Thomas Paine ]
Real glory springs from the quiet conquest of ourselves; and without that the conqueror is nought but the first slave. [ Thomson ]
The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back. [ Simms ]
No conquest can ever become permanent which does not withal show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors. [ Carlyle ]
The lust of gold succeeds the lust of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man. [ Samuel Johnson ]
Happiness has no limits, because God has neither bottom nor bounds, and because happiness is nothing; but the conquest of God through love. [ Amiel ]
What is it that renders friendship between women so lukewarm and of so short duration? It is the interests of love and the jealousy of conquest. [ J. J. Rousseau ]
The objects of avarice and ambition differ only in their greatness. A miser is as furious about a halfpenny as the man of ambition about the conquest of a kingdom. [ Adam Smith ]
Two grand tasks have been assigned to the English people--the grand Industrial task of conquering some half, or more, of the terraqueous planet for the use of man; then, secondly, the grand Constitutional task of sharing, in some pacific endurable manner, the fruit of said conquest, and showing all people how it might be done. [ Carlyle ]