On ne peut repondre de son courage quand on n'a jamais ete dans le peril.
We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.
Write on your doors the saying wise and old,
"Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere—"Be bold;
Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess
Than the defect; better the more than less;
Better like Hector in the field to die,
Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly.
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| work = Marituri Salutamus.
What! shall one monk, scarce known beyond
his cell,
Front Home's far-reaching bolts, and scorn her
frown?
Brave Luther answered, "Yes"; that thunder's
swell
Rocked Europe, and discharmed the triple crown.
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| work = To W. L. Garrison. St. 5.
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| text = Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.
Matthew. XIV. 27.
I argue not
Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot
Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer
Right onward.
| author = Milton
| work = Sonnet. To Cyriack Skinner.
Leve fit quod bene fertur onus.
The burden which is well borne becomes light.
Ovn>—Amorum. I. 2. 10.
Animus tamen omnia vincit.
llle etiam vires corpus habere facit.
Courage conquers all things: it even gives
strength to the body.
Ovid—Epistoloe Ex Ponto. II. 7. 75.
Pluma haud interest, patronus an cliens probior
sit
Homini, cui nulla in pectore est audacia.
It does not matter a feather whether a man
be supported by patron or client, if he himself
wants courage.
Plautus—Mostellaria. II. 1. 64.
Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.
Courage in danger is half the battle.
Plautus—Pseudolus. I. 5. 37.
Non solum taurus ferit uncis cornibus hostem,
Verum etiam instanti lsesa repugnat ovis.
Not only does the bull attack its foe with
its crooked horns, but the injured sheep will
fight its assailant.
Propertius—Elegue. U. 5. 19.
Cowards may fear to die; but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out.
Sir Walter Raleigh—The night before he
died. Bayley's Life of Raleigh. P. 157.
C'est dans les grands dangers qu'on voit les
grands courages.
It is in great dangers that we see great
courage.
Rbgnard—Le Legataire.
Come one, come all! this rock shall fly
From its firm base, as soon as I.
Scott—Lady of the Lake. Canto V. St. 10.
Virtus in astra tendit, in mortem timor.
Courage leads to heaven; fear, to death.
Seneca—Hercules (Etaus. LXXI.
Fortuna opes auferjp, non animum potest.
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
Seneca—Medea. CLXXVI.
You must not think
That we are made of stuff so fat and dull
That we can let our beard be shook with danger
And think it pastime.
Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 7. L. 29.
O, the blood more stirs
To rouse a lion than to start a hare!
Henry IV. Pt. I. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 198.
The smallest worm will turn being trodden on,
And doves will peck in safeguard of their brood.
Henry VI. Pt. III. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 17.
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| text = <poem>Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided
'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear.
Henry VI. Pt.UI. Act V. Sc.4. L. 37.
We fail!
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we'll not fail.
Macbeth. Act I. Sc.7. L. 59.
By how much unexpected, by so much
We must awake endeavour for defence;
For courage mounteth with occasion.
King John. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 80.
Muster your wits : stand in your own defence;
Or hide your heads like cowards, and fly hence.
Love's Labour's Lost. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 85.
He hath borne himself beyond the promise
of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats
of a lion.
Much Ado About Nothing. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 13.
The thing of courage
As rous'd with rage doth sympathise,
And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key,
Retorts to chiding fortune.
TroihisandCressida. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 51.
Ei di virilita grave e maturo,
Mostra in fresco vigor chiome Canute.
Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word,
His locks were gray, yet was his courage green'
TASso—Gerusalemme. I. "53.
