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  • Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage?

    Art   Cat   Waiting  
    'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 35
  • 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.

    Running   Heart   Apollo  
    William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works”, p.1097, Oxford University Press
  • Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.

    David Gemmell (2009). “Troy: Shield Of Thunder”, p.193, Random House
  • 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!

    Revenge   Men   Two  
    "Conan the Barbarian". www.imdb.com. 1982.
  • This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion.

    Crush   Men   Elephants  
    William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson, Isaac Reed (1793). “The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes : with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.229
  • 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.

    Men   Race   Storm  
  • The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.

    "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXXIV, section 14,
  • You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear.

    Revenge   Bears   Looks  
    William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Nicholas Rowe, Samuel Johnson, Richard Farmer (1799). “The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Timon of Athens”
  • In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.

    Land   Share   Vain  
    John Milton (1873). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem, Notes Critical and Explanatory, an Index to the Subjects of Paradise Lost, and a Verbal Index to All the Poems”, p.482
  • The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

    "The Plays and Poems of Shakspeare".
  • We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems.

    Wisdom   Pride   World  
  • 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 (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions
  • These idle disputants overlooked the invariable laws of nature, which have connected peace with innocence, plenty with industry, and safety with valour.

    Law   Safety   History  
    Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.600, Wordsworth Editions
  • Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

  • Between cowardice and despair, valour is gendred.

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

    Proof   Harm   Valour  
    Cornelius Tacitus (1868). “The Agricola and Germany of Tacitus”
  • 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?

    Life   Prudent   Flight  
  • Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

    Life   Death   Warrior  
    Sir Thomas Browne (1831). “Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings”, p.82
  • The desire which urges us to deserve praise strengthens our good qualities, and praise given to wit, valour, and beauty, tends to increase them.

    Desire   Quality   Praise  
  • My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!

    'The Rivals' (1775) act 5, sc. 3
  • How can a man commit acts of martial valour if he values his life?

    War   Men   Commit  
  • ...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.

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

    Edward Gibbon (1802). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.26
  • In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose Talents and Virtues will be admired By Grateful Posterity Long after this Marble shall have mouldered into Dust.

  • There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged an attack. As it crossed the cold water, it lost its fervour. Instead of valour or gallantry, you could hear the sadness of a soul parting with everything that it loved, calling on its nearest and dearest to wake up, to lift their head from their pillows and hear for the last time the voice of a father, a husband, a son or a brother...

  • For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: / His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule.

    Sweet   Eye   Grace  
    'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 4, l. 297
  • Nothing short of the Almighty Power of God can Save us - it is not in our Numbers, our Union, or our Valour that I dare trust.

  • 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.

    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
  • 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.

    Fall   Greatness   Space  
  • Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

    Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.139, Tara Publishing
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