Famous quotes containing the words battle and/or axe:
“That civilisation may not sink,
Its great battle lost,”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The scholar requires hard and serious labor to give an impetus to his thought. He will learn to grasp the pen firmly so, and wield it gracefully and effectively, as an axe or a sword.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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