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Brave deeds are most estimable when hidden. - Blaise Pascal Brave deeds are wasted when hidden. - Blaise Pascal Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage. - Wendell Phillips Cato the elder, when somebody was praising a man for his foolhardy bravery, said "that there was an essential difference between a really brave man and one who had merely a contempt for life." - Plutarch Who combats bravely is not therefore brave: He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave. - Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (epistle I, l. 115) Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such. - Antoine de Rivarol, Comte de Rivarol God helps the brave. [Ger., Dem Muthigen hilft Gott.] - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Wilhelm Tell (I, 2, 132) Come one, come all! this rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I. - Sir Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake (canto V, st. 10) Fight valiantly to-day; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor. - William Shakespeare He is not worthy of the honeycomb That shuns the hive because the bees have stings. - William Shakespeare That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. - William Shakespeare There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valor. - William Shakespeare What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with his foot away? - William Shakespeare What's brave, what's noble, Let's do it after the high Roman fashion, And make death proud to take us. - William Shakespeare He did look far Into the service of the time, and was Discipled of the bravest. He lasted long, But on us both did haggish age steal on, And wore us out of act. - William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (King of France at I, ii) Good sirs, take heart: We'll bury him; and, then, what's brave, what's noble, Let's do't after the high Roman fashion, And make death proud to take us. - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (Cleopatra at IV, xv) A true knight is fuller of gay bravery in the midst than in the beginning of danger. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) True bravery is quiet, undemonstrative. - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) A brave soul is a thing which all things serve. - Alexander Smith What will not woman, gentle woman, dare when strong affection stirs her spirit up? - Robert Southey The best hearts, Trim, are ever the bravest, replied my uncle Toby. - Laurence Sterne The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [Lat., Fortes et strenuos etiam contra fortunam insistere, timidos et ignoros ad desperationem formidine properare.] - Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), Annales (II, 46) Fortune favors the brave. [Lat., Fortes fortuna adjuvat.] - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Phormio (I, 4, 20) Bravery never goes out of fashion. - William Makepeace Thackeray, Four Georges--George Second 'Tis late before the brave despair. - James Thomson (1) Displaying page 3 of 4 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4
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