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How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,
By all their country's wishes blest!
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How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,
By all their country's wishes blest!
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By fairy hands their knell is rung,
By forms unseen their dirge is sung.
Fight till the last gasp.
Fight till the last gasp.
There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck!
A man who's not afraid to say his say,
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There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck!
A man who's not afraid to say his say,
Though a whole town's against him.
There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.
There is no such thing as bravery; only degrees of fear.
The brave find a home in every land.
[Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]
The brave find a home in every land.
[Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]
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.
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.]
Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,
And asks no omen but his country's cause.
Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,
And asks no omen but his country's cause.
Brave men were living before Agamemnon.
Brave men were living before Agamemnon.
