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Firemen are going to get killed. When they join the department they face that fact. When a man becomes a read more
Firemen are going to get killed. When they join the department they face that fact. When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work. They were not thinking of getting killed when they went where death lurked. They went there to put the fire out, and got killed. Firefighters do not regard themselves as heroes because they do what the business requires.
You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
How well Horatius kept the bridge
In the brave days of old.
How well Horatius kept the bridge
In the brave days of old.
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and read more
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding, go out to meet it.
In cold blood he leapt into burning Etna.
[Lat., Ardentem frigidus Aetnam insiluit.]
In cold blood he leapt into burning Etna.
[Lat., Ardentem frigidus Aetnam insiluit.]
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.
No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor
temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god.
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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.]
The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through
his iron, through his blood.
[Ger., Zwar read more
The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through
his iron, through his blood.
[Ger., Zwar der Tapfere nennt sich Herr der Lander
Durch sein Eisen, durch sein Blut.]