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Letter "V" » valor
«Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.»
«My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!»
Author: Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(Orator, Playwright, Politician)
| Keywords:
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«Real valor consists not in being insensible to danger; but in being prompt to confront and disarm it.»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
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«RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.Sharp, irresistible by mail or shield, By guard unparried as by flight unstayed, O serviceable Rumor, let me wield Against my enemy no other blade. His be the terror of a foe unseen, His the inutile hand upon the hilt, And mine the deadly tongue, long, slender, keen, Hinting a rumor of some ancient guilt. So shall I slay the wretch without a blow, Spare me to celebrate his overthrow, And nurse my valor for another foe. --Joel Buxter»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Valor is a soldierly compound of vanity, duty and the gambler's hope.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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compound, gambler, gamblers, soldierly, The Gambler, valor
«To yield to the stronger is valor's second prize»
«True valor lies half way between cowardice and rashness.»
«Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.»
Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
(Emperor, General, Politician)
| About:
Gifts
| Keywords:
for sure, valor
«The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life»
«Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
compliment, courtesies, melted, trim, trimmed, trimmer, trimmest, trimming, trims, valor
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