Gates of Fire
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Victory cannot simply be declared, it must be won.
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But I could not master my own heart.
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the supreme accomplishment of the warrior: to perform the commonplace under far-from-commonplace conditions.
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She regarded me with the same self-consecrated gaze I had observed upon the features of the lady Arete, that expression born of feminine wisdom which apprehends truth directly, through the blood, unobscured by the cruder faculty of reason.