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• We don't always cry because we are weak, sometimes we cry because we have been strong, brave and courageous for way too long.

  Johnny Depp

  Strong, Yoga, Long

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• In this society the young people from the cities and from the countryside, professionals or not, often unemployed, have all means to join and reinforce our efforts to raise the brave torch of Human Rights that illuminates the way in which the future of us all is decided.

  Martin Almada

  Future, Mean, Rights

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• I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.

  Edna Ferber

  Motivational, Acceptance, Men

  1929 Cimarron, ch.23.

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• Remember, every great leader (or visionary or brave thinker) was initially laughed at. Now they are revered.

  Robin Sharma

  Leader, Vision, Remember

  Robin Sharma (2006). “The Greatness Guide: One of the World's Most Successful Coaches Shares His Secrets for Personal and Business Mastery”, p.23, Jaico Publishing House

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• But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

  Abraham Lincoln

  4th Of July, Men, Long

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

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• I came to the Braves on business, and I intended to see that business was good as long as I could.

  Hank Aaron

  Baseball, Long

  Hank Aaron, Furman Bisher (1974). “Aaron”, Ty Crowell Company

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• A pity about the people! they are brave enough comrades, but they have heads like a soapboiler's.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Stupid, People, Pity

  "Wallenstein's Lager", XI. 347 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 758), 1922.

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• Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Adversity, Men, Conflict

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• Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hero, Adversity, Men

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• A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.

  Alexander Pope

  Courage, Men, Thinking

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.379

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• Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Courage, Bravery, Despair

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.238, Penguin

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• Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.

  John F. Kennedy

  Courage, Men, Bravery

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.534, Best Books on

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• It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Valor, Chastity

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• While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very grateful to Almighty God, who gives us victory.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Grateful, Past

  Abraham Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln Association (Springfield, Ill.) (1953). “Collected Works: 1863-1864”

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• God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Soldier, God Bless

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.1402, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Another well-known Paris landmark is the Arc de Triomphe, a moving monument to the many brave women and men who have died trying to visit it.

  Dave Barry

  Travel, Fun, Moving

  "Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need". Book by Dave Barry, 1991.

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• During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved.

  Melissa Bean

  Travel, Fall, Air

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• We must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Military, Just Friends, Enemy

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution”, p.205, Algora Publishing

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• I've been trying to find the word that says what I need to be in life. 'Brave' is the only word. It's the only thing that I ask myself to be.

  Sandra Bullock

  Motivational, Trying, Needs

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• Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Depression, Wise, Strong

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.186, Zondervan

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• May every soul that touches mine - be it the slightest contact - get there from some good; some little grace; one kindly thought; one aspiration yet unfelt; one bit of courage for the darkening sky; one gleam of faith to brave the thickening ills of life; one glimpse of brighter skies beyond the gathering mists - to make this life worthwhile.

  George Eliot

  Sky, Grace, Soul

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• Ah! never shall the land forget How gushed the life-blood of her brave -

  William C. Bryant

  Uplifting, Memorial Day, Blood

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Battle-Field”

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• Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

  Horace

  Courage, Adversity, Heart

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• America the brave
  Still fears what we don't know

  Macklemore

  Rap, America, Stills

  Song: Same Love

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• From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.

  Alexander Pope

  Art, Bravery, Grace

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 152.

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