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As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military…
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Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
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The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit…
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Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
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Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common…
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The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that…
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Style is the image of character.
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I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.…
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'I believe in one God and Mohammed the Apostle of God,' is the simple and invariable profession of Islam. The intellectual image…
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So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief…
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The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never…
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In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.
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It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour.
— Unknown Author
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How can a man commit acts of martial valour if he values his life?
— Torii Mototada
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My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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In testimony of their Respect For The Patriot of incorruptible Integrity, The Soldier of approved Valour The Statesman of consummate Wisdom; Whose…
— Alexander Hamilton
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You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear.
— William Shakespeare
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Crom, I have never prayed to you before. I have no tongue for it. No one, not even you, will remember if…
— Oliver Stone
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I am not carrying on a war of extermination against the Romans. I am contending for honor and empire. My ancestors yielded…
— Hannibal
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This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear,…
— William Shakespeare
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When Freedom from her mountain-height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars…
— Joseph Rodman Drake
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For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God…
— John Milton
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There was something terrible, but also something sad and melancholy in this long cry uttered by the Russian infantry as they staged…
— Vasily Grossman
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Let valour end my life!
— Walter Raleigh
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