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But where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live. - Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici (pt. XLIV) There is always safety in valor. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits--The Times Valor consists in the power of self-recovery. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays--Circles A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t' his other virtues, They're all unseason'd without it. - Ben Jonson, New Inn (act IV, sc. 3) He was spurred on by rival valor. [Lat., Stimulos dedit aemula virtus.] - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan), Pharsalia (I, 120) In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land. - John Milton, Sonnet--To the Lord General Fairfax When valor preys on reason, It eats the sword it fights with: I will seek Some way to leave him. - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (Enobarbus at III, xiii) Do not honor him so much To prick thy finger, though to wound his heart. What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, For one to thrust his hand between his teeth When he might spurn him with his foot away? - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth, Part III (Northumberland at I, iv) 'Tis much he dares; And to that dauntless temper of his mind He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valor To act in safety. - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Macbeth at III, i) You are the hare of whom the proverb goes, Whose valor plucks dead lions by the beard. - William Shakespeare, The Life and Death of King John (Bastard at II, i) He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs His outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly, And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To bring it into danger. - William Shakespeare, The Life of Timon of Athens (First Senator at III, v) My valor is certainly going!--it is sneaking off!--I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palms of my hands. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Rivals (act V, sc. 3) Of small number, but their valour quick for war. [Lat., Exigui numero, sed bello vivida virtus.] - Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), The Aeneid (V, 754)
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