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• Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too; our fear lets us practice valor; we are tense, and tender as well. And among the things we can no longer afford are things we never really wanted anyway.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Pain, Fear, Practice

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• It is war's prize to take all vantages;
  And ten to one is no impeach of valor.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Prize, Ten

  William Shakespeare (2015). “King Henry the Sixth: Parts I, II, and III”, p.222, Hackett Publishing

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• Wherever valor true is found, true modesty will there abound.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Humility, Pride, Modesty

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• Successful or not, acts of physical courage always bring honor. It is the smaller forms of valor - standing up for principle at the risk of social disapproval, economic loss or injury to career - that require the greatest moral will power. Since there is usually little upside to winning and a significant and often lasting downside to losing, moral courage often requires as much character as physical bravery.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Successful, Loss

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• Mr. Lincoln was generous by nature, and though his whole heart was in the war, he could not but respect the valor of those opposed to him. His soul was too great for the narrow, selfish views of partisanship. Brave by nature himself, he honored bravery in others, even his foes.

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Selfish, War, Heart

  Elizabeth Keckley (2016). “Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House”, p.60, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• A world is supported by four things: the learning of wise, the justice of great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Art, Prayer

  "Dune: The Gateway Collection". Book by Frank Herbert, 2012.

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• Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those who shall gather there in after times what manhood could do and dare for right, and what high examples of virtue and valor have gone before them. But let us make our offering to the ever-living soul. Let us build our benefactions in the ever-growing heart, that they shall live and rise and spread in blessing beyond our sight, beyond the ken of man and beyond the touch of time.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Memorial Day, Hero, Heart

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• It often occurs to me that if, against all odds, there is a judgmental God and heaven, it will come to pass that when the pearly gates open, those who had the valor to think for themselves will be escorted to the head of the line, garlanded, and given their own personal audience.

  E. O. Wilson

  Thinking, Odds, Heaven

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• You have won the Cold War. ... [Your] underappreciated valor [helped] topple the Berlin Wall, and bring down dictators the world over. ... For the past four decades the world behind the Iron Curtain ... looked to Americans for hope, and America looked to you to get the job done. Today, the free world says thank you.

  Bob Dole

  Jobs, Wall, War

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• The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valor, rage--who can tell?--but truth--truth stripped of its cloak of time.

  Joseph Conrad

  Past, Men, Joy

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Heart of Darkness”, p.43, Xist Publishing

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• To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Art, Money, Prudence

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• I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Taste, Kind

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The Complete William Shakespeare Collection (Illustrated)”, p.927, Tyché

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• Happiness requires courage, stamina, persistence, fortitude, perseverance, bravery, boldness, valor, vigor, concentration, solidity, substance, backbone, grit, guts, moxie, nerve, pluck, resilience, spunk, tenacity, tolerance, will power, chutzpah, and a good thesaurus.

  Peter McWilliams

  Perseverance, Persistence, Bravery

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• What valor cannot win, flattery may.

  Publilius Syrus

  Winning, May, Flattery

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• It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.

  Aristophanes

  Leadership, Army, Skills

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• Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.

  Philip Sidney

  Courtesy, Natural, Made

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• Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, 'War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away.'

  Immanuel Kant

  War, Men, Order

  Immanuel Kant (2007). “Perpetual Peace”, p.36, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Some nights, valor and cold purpose aren't enough.

  Janet Morris

  Love, Determination, Loneliness

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• Men are so charmed with valor that they have pleased themselves with being called lions, leopards, eagles and dragons, from the animals contemporary with us in the geologic formations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Men, Animal

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.206, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• A cold and searching wind drives away all contagion, and nothing can withstand it but what has a virtue in it, and accordingly, whatever we meet with in cold and bleak places, as the tops of mountains, we respect for a sort of sturdy innocence, a Puritan toughness. All things beside seem to be called in for shelter, and what stays out must be part of the original frame of the universe, and of such valor as God himself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Winter, Wind, Mountain

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1007, Delphi Classics

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• If life is a battle, then my inner scars are medals for valor, for swiftness, for courage, for passion. Evil is the dark-haired brother of Good; they walk hand in hand—always.

  Storm Constantine

  Brother, Passion, Dark

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• Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Men, Battle

  Arm Yourselves and Be Ye Men of Valour, BBC Radio Broadcast 19 May 1940

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• The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have. The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity. They seem as solitary, and the letter in which they are printed as rare and curious, as ever.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Book, Character

  Henry David Thoreau (1939). “Walden: or, Life in the woods”

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• Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Stars, Careers, Prudence

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• ...it is a base thing to look to others for your defense instead of depending upon yourself. That defense alone is effectual, sure, and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valor.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Defense, Looks, Depends

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