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You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
 In cold blood he leapt into burning Etna.
 [Lat., Ardentem frigidus Aetnam insiluit.]  
 In cold blood he leapt into burning Etna.
 [Lat., Ardentem frigidus Aetnam insiluit.] 
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
 How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,
 By all their country's wishes blest!
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 How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,
 By all their country's wishes blest!
  . . . .
   By fairy hands their knell is rung,
    By forms unseen their dirge is sung. 
 The truly brave,
 When they behold the brave oppressed with odds,
  Are touched with a desire to read more 
 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. 
The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
 In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who 
can endure a wretched life.
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 In adversity it is easy to despise life; he is truly brave who 
can endure a wretched life.
 [Lat., Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam;
  Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest.] 
 Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe;
 They took the spear, but left the shield.  
 Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe;
 They took the spear, but left the shield.