Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!
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A book is like a man clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers
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Courageous risks are life giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.
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Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
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Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike.
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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
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Then join hand in hand, brave Americans allBy uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
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Do you want me to tell you something really subversive Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it.... It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
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From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
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It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
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How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!
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Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.
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Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.
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The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory or the grave!
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Brave conquerors! For so you are, That war against your own affections, And the huge army of the world's desires.
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One destin'd period men in common have, The great, the base, the coward, and the brave, All food alike for worms, companions in the grave.
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I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men brave men will make it so.
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Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
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Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosiac, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill.
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It is easy to be brave from a distance.
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Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated, I will not be ashamed.
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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