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To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind.

—Rochester,JohnWilmot, 2nd Earl of

Thislittlesteamer, likeall herbraveand battered sisters,is immortal. She'll go sailing proudly down the years in the epic of Dunkirk. And our great-great-grand-children, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat, and then swept on to victory, may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.

—Priestley,J(ohn) B(oynton)

The difficultest job a man can do, is to come it brave and meek with thirty bob a week, and feel that that's the proper thing for you.

—Davidson,John

Look at the Irish! Theyare the cleverest propagandists extant, and managed to persuade most people that they were a brave, generous, humorous, talented, warm- hearted race, cruelly yoked to a dull mercantile England, when,God knows, they were exactly the opposite.

—Buchan,John, 1st BaronTweedsmuir

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!

—Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'FlahertieWills

The Mountjoy began to move, and soon passed safe through the broken stakes and floating spars.But her brave master was no more. A shot from one of the batteries had struck him; and he died by the most enviable of all deaths, in sight of the city which was his birthplace, which was his home, and which had just been saved by his courage and self-devotion from the most frightful form of destruction.

—1st Baron

   Brave men are a city's strongest tower of defence.

—Alcaeus

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

—Mitchell, Margaret

The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves† The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army.Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance or abject submission.We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die.

—Washington, BookerTaliaferro

Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?

—Clough, Arthur Hugh

Fortis fortuna adiuvat. Fortune favours the brave.

—Terence full name PubliusTerentius Afer

O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleamingö Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the clouds of the fight, O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming! Keynes And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through thenight that our flag was still there; O! say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?

—Key, Francis Scott

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!

—Collins,William

What can I tell you, son of mine? I could tell you of heartbreak, hatred blind, I could tell of crimes that shame mankind, Of brutal wrong and deeds malign, Of rape and murder, son of mine; But I'll tell instead of brave and fine When lives of black and white entwine, And men in brotherhood combineö This would I tell you, son of mine.

—Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

—Millay, Edna St Vincent

   Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

—Stevenson, Robert Louis

Then trust me, there's nothing like drinking So pleasant this side of the grave; It keeps the unhappy from thinking, And makes e'en the valiant more brave.

—Diaz, Porfirio

Vixere fortes anteAgamemnona Multi; sed omnes illacrimabiles Urgentur ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacro. Many brave men lived before Agamemnon's time; but theyare all unmourned and unknown, covered by the long night, because they lack their sacred poet.

—Horace full name  Quintus Horatius Flaccus   65

unless statistics lie he was more brave than me: more blond than you

—cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

—Eisenhower, Dwight D(avid)

Ye say, theyall have passed away, That noble race and brave, That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave; That 'mid the forests where they roamed There rings no hunter's shout; But their name is on your waters, Ye may not wash it out.

—Sigourney, Lydia Howard ne¤  e Huntley

Happy, happy, happy, pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair.

—Dryden,John

Still glides the stream, and shall for ever glide; The Form remains, the function never dies; While we, the brave, the mighty, and the wise, We Men, who in our morn of youth defied The elements, must vanish;öbe it so!

—Wordsworth,William

To fight aloud, is very brave, But gallanter, I know, Who charge within the bosom The Cavalry of Woe.

—Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth