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Triumph Quotes - Page 9

Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.

Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1920). “The wisdom of Disraeli: or, A great policy for a great party”

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void.

William James (1956). “The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality”, p.47, Courier Corporation

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.473

It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

Voltaire (2015). “Socrates”, p.14, Sheba Blake Publishing

Recognition of the Genocide is the triumph of human conscience and justice over intolerance and hatred.

Serzh Sargsyan’s speech on 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide at the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial Complex in Yerevan, Armenia, www.armradio.am. April 24, 2015.

And so the greatest of American triumphs... became a peculiarly joyless victory. We had won the Cold War, but there would be no parades.

Robert M. Gates (2011). “From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents an”, p.552, Simon and Schuster

A noble mind disdains to hide his head, And let his foes triumph in his overthrow.

Robert Greene, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Alphonsus, king of Arragon. James the Fourth. George-a-Greene, the pinner of Wakefield. Specimen of the History of George-a-Greene. Ballad of the Jolly Pinder of Wakefield. Poems”, p.10

The supreme triumph of reason is to cast doubt upon its own validity.

Miguel de Unamuno (2012). “Tragic Sense of Life”, p.104, Courier Corporation