Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
Charles Dickens
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There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck!
A man who's not afraid to say his say,
Though a whole town's against him.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Quotes , Source: Christus (pt. III, John Endicott, act II, sc. 2)
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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Omar Bradley
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Firemen are going to get killed. When they join the department they face that fact. When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work. They were not thinking of getting killed when they went where death lurked. They went there to put the fire out, and got killed. Firefighters do not regard themselves as heroes because they do what the business requires.
Chief Edward F. Croker
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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
Thucydides
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Aristotle
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The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through
his iron, through his blood.
[Ger., Zwar der Tapfere nennt sich Herr der Lander
Durch sein Eisen, durch sein Blut.]
Ernst Moritz Arndt
Quotes , Source: Lehre an den Menschen (5)
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Song of the brave, how thrills thy tone
As when the Organ's music rolls;
No gold rewards, but song alone,
The deeds of great and noble souls.
[Ger., Hoch klingt das Lied vom braven Mann,
Wie Orgelton und Glockenklang;
Wer hohes Muths sich ruhmen kann
Den lohnt nicht Gold, den lohnt Gesang.]
Gottfried Augustus Burger
Quotes , Source: Lied von Braven Mann
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The truly brave,
When they behold the brave oppressed with odds,
Are touched with a desire to shield and save:--
A mixture of wild beasts and demi-gods
Are they--now furious as the sweeping wave,
Now moved with pity; even as sometimes nods
The rugged tree unto the summer wind,
Compassion breathes along the savage mind.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Quotes , Source: Don Juan (canto VIII, st. 106)
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No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor
temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god.
[Lat., Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans,
voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.]
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Quotes , Source: De Officiis (I, 2)
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How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,
By all their country's wishes blest!
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By fairy hands their knell is rung,
By forms unseen their dirge is sung.
William Collins
Quotes , Source: Ode, written in 1746
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Brave men are brave from the very first.
[Fr., Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.]
Pierre Corneille
Quotes , Source: Le Cid (II, 3)
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Toil for the brave!
The brave that are no more.
William Cowper
Quotes , Source: On the Loss of the Royal George
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The god-like hero sate
On his imperial throne:
His valiant peers were placed around,
Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound
(So should desert in arms be crowned).
The lovely Thais by his side,
Sate like a blooming Eastern bride
In flower of youth and beauty's pride.
Happy, happy, happy pair!
None but the brave,
None but the brave,
None but the brave deserve the fair.
John Dryden
Quotes , Source: Alexander's Feast (st. 1)
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The brave man seeks not popular applause,
Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause;
Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can,
Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.
John Dryden
Quotes , Source: Palamon and Arcite (bk. III, l. 2015)
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Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, but left the shield.
Philip Freneau
Quotes , Source: To the Memory of the Brave Americans who fell at Eulaw Springs
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The brave
Love mercy, and delight to save.
John Gay
Quotes , Source: Fable--The Lion, Tiger and Traveller (l. 33)
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Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,
And asks no omen but his country's cause.
Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")
Quotes , Source: The Iliad (bk. XII, l. 283), (Pope's translation)
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