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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a…
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Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.
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War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at.
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A noisy man is always in the right.
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How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and…
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Grief is itself a medicine.
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Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
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No one was ever scolded out of their sins.
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Forced from home, and all its pleasures, afric coast I left forlorn; to increase a stranger's treasures, o the raging billows borne.…
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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?
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Strength may wield the ponderous spade, May turn the clod, and wheel the compost home; But elegance, chief grace the garden shows,…
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Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does…
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Never forget that life can only be nobly inspired and rightly lived if you take it bravely and gallantly, as a splendid…
— Annie Besant
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You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There…
— Chris Cooper
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Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed as the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad…
— Francis Scott Key
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Heaven speed the canvas, gallantly unfurl'd, To furnish and accommodate a world, To give the Pole the produce of the sun, And…
— William Cowper
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Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light O'er the glad waves, like a…
— Unknown Author
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Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think,…
— Bertrand Russell
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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building,…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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The way was long and weary, But gallantly they strode, A country lad and lassie, Along the heavy road.
— Unknown Author
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