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• Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority.

  George Eliot

  Believe, Men, Good Man

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.933, Delphi Classics

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• For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl.
  [Ger., Denn ein wackerer Mann verdient ein begutertes Madchen.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Girl, Men, Matrimony

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• 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

  Bravery, Despair, Fortune

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• Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Order, Generosity, Precious Things

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.157

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• A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Men, Bully, Coward

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1853). “Sam Slick's wise saws and modern instances: or, What he said, did, or invented”, p.105

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• In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who can endure a wretched life.
  [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam;
  Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.]

  Martial

  Adversity, Bravery, Easy

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• Ah, never shall the land forget
  How gush'd the life-blood of the brave,
  Gush'd warm with hope and courage yet,
  Upon the soil they fought to save!

  William C. Bryant

  Courage, Blood, Land

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• Now see what a Christian is, drawn by the hand of Christ. He is a man on whose clear and open brow God has set the stamp of truth; one whose very eye beams bright with honor; in whose very look and bearing you may see freedom, manliness, veracity; a brave man--a noble man--frank, generous, true, with, it may be, many faults; whose freedom may take the form of impetuosity or rashness, but the form of meanness never.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Christian, Eye, Men

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”, p.316

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• In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet even then it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Selfish, Soul, Coward

  Frederick William Robertson (1850). “An address delivered to the members of the Working Man's Institute, at the Town Hall, Brighton, on Thursday, April 18, 1850, on the question of the introduction of sceptical publications into the library”, p.13

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• A brave man is clear in his discourse, and keeps close to truth.

  Aristotle

  Men, Bravery, Clear

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• To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil.

  Aristotle

  Suicide, Men, Order

  Aristotle (1871). “The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle”, p.74

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• It is besides necessary that whoever is brave should be a man of great soul.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Bravery, Soul

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1872). “The Academic Questions: Treatise De Finibus and Tusculan Disputations of M. R. Cicero, with a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero”, p.369

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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.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Pain, Men, Thinking

  "De Officiis". Treatise by Marcus Tullius Cicero, I. 2, 44 B.C..

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• Who would ever care to do brave deed,
  Or strive in virtue others to excel,
  If none should yield him his deserved meed
  Due praise, that is the spur of doing well?
  For if good were not praised more than ill,
  None would choose goodness of his own free will.

  Edmund Spenser

  Yield, Spurs, Care

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• Fortune and love favour the brave.
  [Lat., Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant.]

  Ovid

  Bravery, And Love, Favour

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• The whole earth is the brave man's country.
  [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]

  Ovid

  Country, Men, Patriotism

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• Guilt once harbored in the conscious breast, intimidates the brave, degrades the great.

  Samuel Johnson

  Guilt, Intimidating, Conscious

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• A brave soul is a thing which all things serve.

  Alexander Smith

  Bravery, Soul, All Things

  alexander smith (1853). “poems”, p.67

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• That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave.

  John Dryden

  Soul, Treasure, Appearance

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• Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.

  John Dryden

  Unjust, Ruins, Slave

  John Dryden (1808). “The works of John Dryden, with notes and a life of the author by sir W. Scott”, p.325

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• My brave fellows, let no sensation of satisfaction for the triumphs you have gained induce you to insult your fallen enemy. Let no shouting, no clamorous huzzaing increase their mortification. It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation. Posterity will huzza for us.

  George Washington

  Enemy, Satisfaction, Triumph

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• To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Profanity, Polite

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• Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

  Agatha Christie

  Courage, Certain, Consolation

  Agatha Christie (1992). “Endless Night”, HarperCollins

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• Peace signifies more than the stilling of guns, easing the sorrow of war. More than escape from death, it is a way of life. More than a haven for the weary, it is a hope for the brave.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Gun, Sorrow

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

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• Valor and power may gain a lasting memory, but where are they when the brave and mighty are departed? Their effects may remain, but they live not in them any more than the fire in the work of the potter.

  Hartley Coleridge

  Memories, Fire, Departed

  Philip Massinger, Hartley Coleridge, John Ford (1848). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford. With an introduction, by Hartley Coleridge”, p.20

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