“Only a battle lost is sadder than a battle won.”
Robert Jordan The Fires of Heaven
Source: The Fires of Heaven
“The storm is ended! The impartial sun
Laughs down upon the battle lost and won,
And crowns the triumph of the cloudy host
In rolling lines retreating to the coast.”
III, st. 1.
The Fall of the Leaves (1874)
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Jesus, as portrayed in Preface, Difference Between Reader And Spectator
1930s, On the Rocks (1933)
Context: The kingdom of God is striving to come. The empire that looks back in terror shall give way to the kingdom that looks forward with hope. Terror drives men mad: hope and faith give them divine wisdom. The men whom you fill with fear will stick at no evil and perish in their sin: the men whom I fill with faith shall inherit the earth. I say to you Cast out fear. Speak no more vain things to me about the greatness of Rome. … You, standing for Rome, are the universal coward: I, standing for the kingdom of God, have braved everything, lost everything, and won an eternal crown.
“Yet have we well begun,
Battles so bravely won
Have ever to the sun
By fame been raisëd.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) English poet
Source: To the Cambro-Britons and Their Harp, his Ballad of Agincourt (1627), Lines 29-32.