Famous quotes containing the words defeat and/or sin:
“A self-denial, no less austere than the saint’s, is demanded of the scholar. He must worship truth, and forgo all things for that, and choose defeat and pain, so that his treasure in thought is thereby augmented.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Dignity’s the stain
Of mortal sin that knows humility.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)