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Letter "R" » renown
«To set the cause above renown, To love the game beyond the prize, To honor, while you strike him down, The foe that comes with fearless eyes; To count the life of battle good And dear the land that gave you birth, And dearer yet the brotherhood That»
Author: Henry Newbolt
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Above and Beyond, brotherhood, count down, dearer, fearless, renown, The Brotherhood, The Prize
«The one who count are those persons who-though they may be of little renown-respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit.»
«Of Nelson and the North / Sing the glorious day's renown, / When to battle fierce came forth / All the might of Denmark's crown, / And her arms along the deep proudly shone.»
«There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.»
«Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.»
«Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt..»
«There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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abandonment, battlefields, Braves, flourish, inch, invasion, In the Shadows, isolation, obstinate, renown, rewards, saluted, salutes, The Shadows, triumphs, trumpets, turpitude
«Stay we no longer, dreaming of renown, But sound the trumpets, and about our task»
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