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Tag Name "Valor" (93)

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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
Tacitus
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Valor is the soldier's adornment.
Livy
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Valor is strength, not of legs and arms, but of heart and soul it consists not in the worth of our horse or our weapons, but in our own.
Michel de Montaigne
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Valor is abased by too much loftiness.
Philip Sidney
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Valor would cease to be a virtue, if there were no injustice.
Agesilaus II
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Valor is the contempt of death and pain.
Tacitus
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Valor is common but great souls are rare.
Bernard-Joseph Saurin
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Valor and power may gain a lasting memory, but where are they when the brave and mighty are departed? Their effects may remain, but they live not in them any more than the fire in the work of the potter.
Hartley Coleridge
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Valor is superior to number.
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
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What really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out - not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time.
John F. Kennedy
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It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
Aristophanes
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This is true valor, I hope you know. Legends have sprung from less. All Lancelot did was paddle about in a balmy lake.” She smiled. “Lancelot was a knight. You’re a viscount. The bar is higher.
Tessa Dare
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If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.
John Milton
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This is the violet hour, the hour of hush and wonder, when the affectations glow and valor is reborn, when the shadows deepen along the edge of the forest and we believe that, if we watch carefully, at any moment we may see the unicorn.
Bernard DeVoto
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Who asks whether the enemy was defeated by strategy or valor?
Virgil
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To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
Berthold Auerbach
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.
Walter Bagehot
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Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Chester W. Nimitz
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Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.
Walter Scott
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True valor lies in the middle between cowardice and rashness.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.
Christopher Hart
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I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other people's too our fear lets us practice valor we are tense, and tender as well. And among the things we can no longer afford are things we never really wanted anyway.
Nancy Gibbs
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