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"We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat and prefer 'speech' and 'discourse'; well-bred, brilliant, or polite noblemen (visions of snobbery columns in the Press, and fat men on the Riviera) and prefer the 'worthy, brave and courteous men' of long ago."
"To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men."
"Brave thoughts, but am I ready to follow through on them?"
"Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?"
"Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do."
"It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live."
"The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward."
"he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in."
"I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world."
"By the delusions of seeming good the people are often misled to desire their own ruin; and they are frequently influenced by great hopes and brave promises."
"I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box."
"Drunkenness is not only the cause of crime, but it is crime; and if any encourage drunkenness for the sake of the profit derived from the sale of drink, they are guilty of a form of moral assassination as criminal as any that has ever been practiced by the braves of any country or of any age."
"Love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. A Brave and Startling Truth."
"Turkish soldiers are very brave. They love their homeland and they do not hesitate to give their lives for it if necessary."
"I am out of practice at living. You are as brave as a motorcycle."
"The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can. So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear."
"Dauntless: being brave in the midst of fear."
"True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind."
"Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men."
"Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader."
