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There could be no honor in a sure success but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

~ T. E. Lawrence

T. E. Lawrence Worthy Victories

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.

~ T. E. Lawrence

T. E. Lawrence Day Eyes Men

Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.

~ T. E. Lawrence

T. E. Lawrence Win Help Hands

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

~ T. E. Lawrence

T. E. Lawrence World Detail Bad

Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.

~ T. E. Lawrence

T. E. Lawrence Nature Memory Men

The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.

~ T. E. Lawrence

T. E. Lawrence Man Learn Better

It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.

~ T. E. Lawrence

T. E. Lawrence Sea Men Red
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