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Courage.

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01c. 1770 AD

Then join in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

John Dickinson / quote

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02c. 1810 AD

The combat deepens. On, ye brave, Who rush to glory or the grave! Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave, And charge with all thy chivalry!

Thomas Campbell / quote

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03c. 1811 AD

And the star-spangled banner, oh long may it wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

F. S. Key / quote

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04c. 1811 AD

Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation! Then conquer we must when our cause it is just, And this be our motto, "In God is our trust!" And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

F. S. Key / quote

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05c. 1815 AD

Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?

Thomas Moore / quote

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06c. 1815 AD

Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!

Thomas Moore / quote

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07c. 1806 AD

There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell.

Lord Byron / quote

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08c. 1806 AD

Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave.

Lord Byron / quote

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09c. 1806 AD

Brave men were living before Agamemnon.

Lord Byron / quote

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10c. 1829 AD

How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.

Thomas B. Macaulay / quote

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11c. 1843 AD

If the history of England be ever written by one who has the knowledge and the courage,—and both qualities are equally requisite for the undertaking,—the world will be more astonished than when reading the Roman annals by Niebuhr.

Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield) / quote

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12c. 1844 AD

Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

Henry W. Longfellow / quote

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13c. 1855 AD

Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified.

James Russell Lowell / quote

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14c. 1851 AD

A song to the oak, the brave old oak, Who hath ruled in the greenwood long!

H. F. Chorley / quote

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15c. 1851 AD

Then here 's to the oak, the brave old oak, Who stands in his pride alone! And still flourish he a hale green tree When a hundred years are gone!

H. F. Chorley / quote

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16c. 1852 AD

When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.

Francis W. Bourdillon / quote

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17c. 1852 AD

Not she with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung, Not she denied him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank, could danger brave, Last at his cross and earliest at his grave.

Francis W. Bourdillon / quote

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18c. 172 BC

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence / quote

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19c. 86 AD

The gods looked with favour on superior courage.

Tacitus / quote

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20c. 200 AD

Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue."

Diogenes Laertius / quote

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21c. 1581 AD

The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

Miguel De Cervantes / quote

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22c. 1760 AD

To arms! to arms! ye brave! The avenging sword unsheathe! March on! march on! all hearts resolved On victory or death!

Joseph Rouget De L'Isle / quote

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23Undated

He that's afraid of wounds must not come nigh a battle.

Traditional · English / proverb

Meaning: An undertaking with known hazards may require accepting some exposure to them. Battle and wounds make that point forcefully, without requiring someone to take an unreasonable risk or treating caution as cowardice.

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24Undated

More afraid than hurt.

Traditional · English / proverb

Meaning: What someone feared may have been worse than what actually happened. The comparison can bring perspective after an event, without deciding in advance that a concern is groundless or dismissing the distress of being frightened.

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