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Solid men of Boston, banish long potations!
Solid men of Boston, make no long orations!

Charles Morris—Pitt and Dundas's Return to London from Wimbledon. American Song. From Lyra Urbanica.

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Solid men of Boston, make no long orations;
Solid men of Boston, drink no long potations;
Solid men of Boston, go to bed at sundown;
Never lose your way like the loggerheads of London.

Billy Pitt and the Farmer. Printed in "Asylum for Fugitive Pieces" (1786), without author's name.

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Massachusetts has been the wheel within New England, and Boston the wheel within Massachusetts. Boston therefore is often called the "hub of the world," since it has been the source and fountain of the ideas that have reared and made America.

Rev. F. B. Zinckle—Last Winter in the United States (1868)

(See also Holmes).

BOYHOOD

(See Childhood, Youth)

BRAVERY

(See also Courage, Valor)

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Zwar der Tapfere nennt sich Herr der Lander
Durch sein Eisen, durch sein Blut.

The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.

Arndt—Lehre an den Menschen. 5.

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Hoch klingt das Lied vom braven Mann,
Wie Orgelton und Glockenklang;
Wer hohes Muths sich ruhmen kann
Den lohnt nicht Gold, den lohnt Gesang.
Song of the brave, how thrills thy tone
As when the Organ's music rolls;
No gold rewards, but song alone,
The deeds of great and noble souls.

Burger—Lied von Braven Mann.

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Brave men were living before Agamemnon.

Byron—Don Juan. Canto I. St. 5.

(See also Horace)

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The truly brave,
When they behold the brave oppressed with odds,
Are touched with a desire to shield and save:—
A mixture of wild beasts and demi-gods
Are they—now furious as the sweeping wave,
Now moved with pity; even as sometimes nods
The rugged tree unto the summer wind,
Compassion breathes along the savage mind.

Byron—Don Juan. Canto VIII. St. 106.

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Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest good.

Cicero—De Officiis. I. 2.

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How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,
By all their country's wishes blest!

Collins —Ode written in 1746. Authorship disputed. Found in the Oratorio, Alfred the Great, altered from Alfred, a Masque, presented Aug. 1, 1740. Written by Thompson and Mallet.

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Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup.
Brave men are brave from the very first.

Corneille—Le Cid. II. 3.

(See also Horace)

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Toll for the brave!
The brave that are no more.

Cowper—On the Loss of the Royal George.

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The brave man seeks not popular applause,
Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause;
Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can,
Force is of brutes, but honor is of man.

Dryden—Palamon and Arcite. Bk. III. L. 2,015.

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The god-like hero sate
On his imperial throne:
His valiant peers were placed around,
Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound
(So should desert in arms be crowned).
The lovely Thais, by his side,
Sate like a blooming Eastern bride
In flower of youth and beauty's pride.
Happy, happy, happy pair!
None but the brave.
None but the brave,
None but the brave deserve the fair.

Dryden—Alexander's Feast. St. 1

(See also Ovid; also Burns and Collier under Wooing)

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Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe:
They took the spear, but left the shield.

Philip Freneau—To the Memory of The Brave Americans who fell at Eutaw Springs.

(See also Scott—Marmion. Introd. to Canto III)

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The brave
Love mercy, and delight to save.

Gay—Fable. The Lion, Tiger and Traveller. L. 33.

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Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,
And asks no omen but his country's cause.

Homer—Iliad. Bk. XII. L. 283. Pope's trans.

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O friends, be men; so act that none may feel
Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men.
Think each one of his children and his wife,
His home, his parents, living yet or dead.
For them, the absent ones, I supplicate,
And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly.

Homer—Iliad. Bk. XV. L. 843. Bryant's trans.

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Ardentem frigidus Ætnam insiluit.
In cold blood he leapt into burning Etna.

Horace—Ars Poetica.