The Knight in the triumph of his heart made several 6 reflections on thegreatness of the British Nation; as, that one Englishman could beat three Frenchmen; that we could never be in danger of Popery so long as we took care of our fleet; that theThames was thenoblest river in Europe; that London Bridge was a greater piece of work than any of the Seven Wonders of the World; with many other honest prejudices which naturally cleave to the heart of a true Englishman.

-Addison,Joseph
  In The Spectator, no.383, 20 May.

Hark! ah, the Nightingale! The tawny-throated! Hark! from that moonlit cedar what a burst! What triumph! harköwhat pain!

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems:  A New Edition,'Philomela', l.1^4.

Mr Sammler with his screwy visions! He saw the increasing triumph of EnlightenmentöLiberty, Equality, Adultery!

-Bellow, Saul
  Mr Sammler's Planet, ch.3.

Why comes temptation but for a man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestalled in triumph?

-Browning, Robert
^9  The Ring and the Book, bk.10, l.1184^6.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.

-Browning, Robert
  Asolando, epilogue.

Science is triumphant with far-ranging success, but its triumph is somehow clouded by growing difficulties in providing for the simple necessities of human life on earth.

-Commoner, Barry
  Science and Survival.

The most important thing in the Olympic games is not winning but taking partöjust as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

-Coubertin, Pierre de, Baron
  Speech to Olympic Games officials, London, 24  Jul.

'Be thine despair and sceptred care; To triumph, and to die, are mine.' He spoke, and headlong from the mountain's height Deep in the roaring tide he plunged to endless night.

-Gray,Thomas
  The Bard.  A Pindaric Ode, l.141^4.

   The 'men of the hour', the self-assured who strut among us in the jingling harness of their success and importance, how can you let yourself be irritated by them. Let them enjoy their triumphöon the level to which it belongs.

-Hammarskjo«  ld, Dag HjalmarAgne Carl
  Va«  gmarken (translated by L Sjsy«  berg and W H  Auden as Markings,1964).

The triumph of hope over experience.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
 On a friend's second marriage shortly after the death of his first, troublesome, wife. Quoted in  James Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), vol.2.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dreamöand not make dreams your master; If you can thinköand not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet withTriumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  Rewards and Fairies,'Ifö'.

In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we can triumph.

-Napoleon I
Quoted in  A G De Liancourt (ed) Maximes de Napoleon (1842).

He handles symbolism rather like an Olympic weight lifter, raising it with agonizing care, brandishing it with a tiny grunt of triumph, then dropping it with a terrible clang.

-Nightingale, Benedict
  Of playwright  William Inge. In the NewYork Times, 28  Jul.

A new scientific truth does not triumph byconvincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

-Planck, Max Karl Ernst
A ScientificAutobiography and Other Papers (translated by Frank Gaynor, published1949).

Though others before him had triumphed three times, Pompeius, by having gained his first triumph over Libya, his second over Europe, and this the last over Asia, seemed in a manner to have brought the whole world into his three triumphs.

-Plutarch
Referring to Pompey's victories against the Marian party in Africa, in Spain, and against Mithridates in Asia Minor (c.62 Parallel Lives,'Pompeius', ch.45. ). BC

The strife is o'er, the battle done; Now is theVictor's triumph won;

-Pott, Frances
English  author  and  illustrator  of  books  for  children,  whose characters have become classics of children's literature.

The triumph of failure.

-Ryan, Desmond
  Of the Irish uprising of1916.The Rising, closing words.

Most glorious Lord of Life! that, on this day, Didst makeThy triumph over death and sin; And having harrowed hell, didst bring away Captivity thence captive, us to win:

-Spenser, Edmund
  Amoretti, sonnet 68.

Most glorious Lord of Life! that, on this day, Didst makeThy triumph over death and sin; And having harrowed hell, didst bring away Captivity thence captive, us to win:

-Spenser, Edmund
  Amoretti, sonnet 68.

Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare!

-Thomson,James pseudonym 'BV',ByssheVanolis
  The Seasons,'Autumn', l.401.