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Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities. ↗

— Benjamin Cardozo

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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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