Not being called out in admiration and delight, our feelings brood over mean and sensual pleasures; they dwell upon narrow and selfish concerns; they fasten upon the accumulation of wealth or the Vanquishing of a rival, as substitutes for the nobler interests that have vanished; and the heart becomes sordid, sensual, mean, petty, spiteful, and ugly.
"Practical Ethics"
William DeWitt Hyde
Not a word from her; encountering a mysterious suspicion from Reifferscheid; avoiding Selma Cross by his word and her own; Vanquishing, who may know how many devils of his own past; and then summoning the courage and gentleness to write such a letter as she had received-a letter sent out into the dark-this was loyalty and courage to woo the soul.
"She Buildeth Her House"
Will Comfort
Now, since thou know'st of this, yield thy consent; For glorious is the gain, being singled forth From all the Greeks as noblest, first to come To healing hands, and then to win renown Unrivalled, Vanquishing all tearful Troy.
"The Seven Plays in English Verse"
Sophocles