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.
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Fight till the last gasp.
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate read more
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Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, but left the shield.
Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, but left the shield.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to read more
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
'Tis more brave
To live, than to die.
'Tis more brave
To live, than to die.
At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. read more
At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.
O friends, be men; so act that none may feel
Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men.
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O friends, be men; so act that none may feel
Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men.
Think each one of this children and his wife,
His home, his parents, living yet and dead.
For them, the absent ones, I supplicate,
And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.
How well Horatius kept the bridge
In the brave days of old.
How well Horatius kept the bridge
In the brave days of old.
