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This ground is hallowed by the heroes of defeat.
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“This ground is hallowed by the heroes of defeat.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Memories and Portraits
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1887
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The phrase grants dignity to people who struggled without conventional victory, reframing defeat as compatible with courage and a life still worthy of remembrance.

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Memories and Portraits, in Stevenson’s reflection on graves and failed lives; Project Gutenberg #381. The sentence is literary commemoration, not a claim that every defeat is heroic.

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“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”

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