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• Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if we were good men or bad. Why we fought, and why we died. All that matters is that today, two stood against many. Valour pleases you, so grant me this one request. Grant me revenge! And if you do not listen, the HELL with you!

  Oliver Stone

  Revenge, Men, Two

  "Conan the Barbarian". www.imdb.com. 1982.

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• It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit,
  Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit,
  That woman's love can win, or long inherit;
  But what it is, hard is to say,
  Harder to hit.

  John Milton

  Life, Winning, Long

  John Milton (1836). “The Poetical Works of John Milton... to which is Prefixed the Life of the Author Together with”, p.309

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• And by a prudent flight and cunning save
  A life which valour could not, from the grave.
  A better buckler I can soon regain,
  But who can get another life again?

  Archilochus

  Life, Prudent, Flight

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• The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Desire, Quality, Praise

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• These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour.

  Edward Gibbon

  Law, Safety, History

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.600, Wordsworth Editions

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• I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris.

  Coco Chanel

  Paris, Eulogy, Liberation

  Source: www.chanel-muggeridge.com

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• It drives on with a courage which is stronger than the storm. It drives on with a mercy which does not quail in the presence of death. It drives on as proof, a symbol, a testimony that man is created in the image of God and that valour and virtue have not perished in the British race.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Race, Storm

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• ...in the acquisition of this blessing human nature can find no better helper than Love. I declare that it is the duty of every man to honour Love, and I honour and practice the mysteries of Love in an especial degree myself, and recommend the same to others, and I praise the power and valour of Love to the best of my ability both now and always.

  Socrates

  Blessing, Men, Practice

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• Who would true valour see,
  Let him come hither;
  One here will constant be,
  Come wind, come weather
  There’s no discouragement
  Shall make him once relent
  His first avowed intent
  To be a pilgrim.

  John Bunyan

  Courage

  'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1684) pt. 2

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• Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.

  Thomas Browne

  Suicide, Jobs, Taught Us

  Sir Thomas Browne (1845). “Religio Medici: Together with a Letter to a Friend on the Death of His Intimate Friend and Christian Morals”, p.112

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• Society must fight against this belief in God as it fought against idol worship and other narrow conceptions of religion. In this way man will try to stand on his feet. Being realistic, he will have to throw his faith aside and face all adversaries with courage and valour. That is exactly my state of mind.

  Bhagat Singh

  Fighting, Men, Idols

  Bhagat Singh, Bhupendra Hooja, Democratic Youth Federation of India (2007). “Bhagat Singh, on the path of liberation”

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• The petitions of Moses discomfited the enemy more than the fighting of Joshua. Yet both were needed. No, in the soul's conflict, force and fervor, decision and devotion, valour and vehemence, must join their forces, and all will be well.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Fighting, Decision, Soul

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2008). “Devotional Classics of C. H. Spurgeon”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• In the second century of the Christian era, the Empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilised portion of mankind. The frontiers of that extensive monarchy were guarded by ancient renown and disciplined valour. The gentle but powerful influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Powerful, Luxury

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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• Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous.

  Plutarch

  Enemy, Cowardice, Despise

  Plutarch (2012). “Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans: Complete”, p.371, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not propose to our British ladies, that they should turn Amazons in the service of their sovereign, nor so much as let their nails grow for the defence of their country. The men will take the work of the field off their hands, and show the world, that English valour cannot be matched when it is animated by English beauty.

  Joseph Addison

  Country, Men, Hands

  Joseph Addison, Thomas Tickell (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison: With the Exception of His Numbers of the Spectator”, p.49

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• John Smith: Mankind doesn't need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide honour and valour. Let's hope that from now on this country can find its heroes in smaller places. In the most ordinary of deeds.

  Paul Cornell

  Country, Peace, Hero

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• The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed, When cowardice pursues and valour flies.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Heart, Apollo

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1097, Oxford University Press

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• How can a man commit acts of martial valour if he values his life?

  Torii Mototada

  War, Men, Commit

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• You cannot be disciplined in great things and undisciplined in small things. Brave undisciplined men have no chance against the discipline and valour of other men. Have you seen a few policemen handle a crowd?

  George S. Patton

  Men, Discipline, Brave

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• Where it is permissible both to die and not to die, it is an abuse of valour to die.

  Mencius

  Death, Abuse, Dies

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• Indeed, the crowning proof of their valour and their strength is that they keep up their superiority without harm to others.

  Tacitus

  Proof, Harm, Superiority

  Cornelius Tacitus (1868). “The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus”

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• Love of fame, fear of disgrace, schemes for advancement, desire to make life comfortable and pleasant, and the urge to humiliate others are often at the root of the valour men hold in such high esteem.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Courage, Men, Roots

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• I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time the excess of the opposite virtue, as one does in Epaminondas, who displayed extreme valour and extreme benevolence. For otherwise it is not an ascent, but a fall. We do not display our greatness by placing ourselves at one extremity, but rather by being at both at the same time, and filling up the whole of the space between them.

  Blaise Pascal

  Fall, Greatness, Space

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• The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Army, Noble, Causes

  Speech in the House of Commons, April, 1844.

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• Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

  Edward Gibbon

  Often Is, Discipline, History

  Edward Gibbon (1802). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.26

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