Brave Quotes - Page 39

• But hospitality must be for service, and not for show, or it pulls down the host. The brave soul rates itself too high to value itself by the splendor of its table and draperies. It gives what it hath, and all it hath, but its own majesty can lend a better grace to bannocks and fair water than belong to city feasts.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Cities, Giving, Water

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.76, 谷月社

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• For it is true now, as it always was and always will be, that to be free is the same thing as to be pious, to be wise, to be temperate and just, to be frugal and abstinent, and to be magnanimous and brave; and to be the opposite of all these is the same as to be a slave.

  Albert Pike

  Wise, Opposites, Slave

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• I wrote myself back together. I wrote myself toward a stronger version of myself . . . Through writing and feminism, I also found that if I was a little bit brave, another woman might hear me and see me and recognize that none of us are the nothing the world tries to tell us we are.

  Roxane Gay

  Writing, Feminism, Trying

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• Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Bravery, Shock

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.121, Penguin

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• I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had him wait till that time came?--till you and I came over to him?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Bravery, Waiting

  "A Plea for Captain John Brown" (1859)

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• If a man were to place himself in an attitude to bear manfully the greatest evil that can be inflicted on him, he would find suddenly that there was no such evil to bear; his brave back would go a-begging.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Attitude, Men, Evil

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.190, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Bravery, Brave Man

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Father, Men, Bravery

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.255

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• Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sadness, Men, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.84, Graphic Arts Books

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• We say justly that the weak person is flat, for, like all flat substances, he does not stand in the direction of his strength, that is, on his edge, but affords a convenient surface to put upon. He slides all the way through life.... But the brave man is a perfect sphere, which cannot fall on its flat side and is equally strong every way.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strength, Strong, Fall

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.8, Courier Corporation

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• We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Thinking, Bravery

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• To our generation Einstein has been made to become a double symbol - a symbol of the mind travelling in the cold regions of space, and a symbol of the brave and generous outcast, pure in
  heart and cheerful of spirit.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Heart, Our Generation, Space

  "The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes". Book by John Maynard Keynes, Cambridge University Press, volume xxviii, 1998.

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• I could have wished that the reputations of many brave men were not to be imperilled in the mouth of a single individual, to stand or fall according as he spoke well or ill. For it is hard to speak properly upon a subject where it is even difficult to convince your hearers that you are speaking the truth.

  Thucydides

  Fall, Men, Mouths

  Thucydides, Ruth Finnegan “History of Greece”, Lulu.com

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• Man must be able to think freely and he must be able to express his thoughts freely! He who is against this is not only fascist and primitive but at the same time is a very great coward also! Only the brave and the honourable men are never afraid of freedom of thought and freedom of expression of ideas! Just like the cockroaches do not like the light, evil minds also do not like the freedom of thoughts!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Freedom, Men, Thinking

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• Drink reacts on its practitioners in conflicting ways. One brave can knock off a quart of Scotch and look and act as sober as Herbert Hoover. Another, after three Martinis, makes two-cushion carroms off the chaise lounge as he attempts to negotiate the bathroom.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Scotch, Two, Three

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• The brave pilot gave his life defending his faith, country and nation and joined other Jordanian martyrs who gave their lives for Jordan.

  Abdallah II

  Life, Country, Pilots

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• I am extremely sorry for the stress and confusion I have brought on the Braves organization.

  John Rocker

  Sorry, Stress, Organization

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• Be loved. Be known. Love people and know people. Be so brave as to raise a hand for help when you need it. Make friends and make sure they know they matter. Be loyal to them and fight for them. Remind them what’s true and invite them to do the same when you forget. If you do some losing or you walk with someone else in their defeat, live with dignity and grace. It is the middle finger to the darkness.

  Jamie Tworkowski

  Fighting, Hands, People

  Jamie Tworkowski (2015). “If You Feel Too Much DELUXE: Thoughts on Things Found and Lost and Hoped For”, p.62, Penguin

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• A coward may die many times, but a brave man dies only once. If I die for you, I won't consider it death but love.

  Hani

  Drama, Men, Coward

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• One thing that I learned is this - once a Braves fan, always a Braves fan. No matter what. And as a player, that means more than you could understand.

  Tim Hudson

  Mean, Player, Fans

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• Jobs was brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Believe, Thinking

  "Obama extols Jobs's vision" by Jennifer Epstein and Amie Parnes, www.politico.com. October 5, 2011.

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• I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.

  Pat Gillick

  Yankees, Texas, Atlanta

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• Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry. . . Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.

  J. Ruth Gendler

  Summer, Daughter, School

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• Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her.

  J. Ruth Gendler

  Enough, Asks

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• Honestly, I have s much respect for single moms or anybody who finds themselves a single mother, but to even choose to be single mother is just so courageous to me. It is such a hard job to raise a child and be everything to that child without a partner. It's just admirable and courageous and brave and every other valiant word I can think of. I don't know if I could do it on my own.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Mom, Mother, Jobs

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