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“O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty.”

Looks Soul Whole Song Speak Poet Duty Brave Worthy Look Up Poetic Falsehood Earnest Truest Speak The Truth

Book:A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Source: A Selection from the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“I am ever unwilling that [peace] should be disturbed as long as the rights and interests of the nations can be preserved. But whensoever hostile aggressions on these require a resort to war, we must meet our duty and convince the world that we are just friends and brave enemies.”

World Should Long War Nations Interest Enemy Rights Duty Brave Convince Aggression Hostile Resorts Disturbed Unwilling Just Friends

Book:Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence

Source: Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence

“True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. Resolution lies more in the head than in the veins, and a just sense of honor and of infamy, of duty and of religion, will carry us farther than all the force of mechanism.”

Mind Lying Force Results Courage Duty Honor Brave Reasoning Resolution Mechanism Veins Infamy True Courage

Author:Jeremy Collier

“And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth, Is better than life with love forever, And love is the sweetest thing on earth.”

Earth Love Is Moral Forever Duty And Love Brave Sweetest Endeavour Forever Love

Author:James Jeffrey Roche

“The brave man wants no charms to encourage him to his duty, and the good man scorns all warnings that would deter him from fulfilling it.”

Men Want Duty Brave Charm Good Man Warning Fulfilling Scorn Brave Man

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“I know no real worth but that tranquil firmness which seeks dangers by duty, and braves them without rashness.”

Knows Real Danger Duty Brave Tranquil Firmness Rashness

Book:Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld

Source: Moral reflections, sentences and maxims of Francis, duc de la Rochefoucauld

“He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.”

Ifs Made Done Duty Bravery Brave Endure Foe Fray

Author:Charles Mackay

“The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, and feel for what their duty bids them do.”

Feels Heart Eye Duty Brave

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.”

Men Should Able Community Honesty Duty Lovers Brave Corruption Saved Beast Righteousness Coward Civics Hunted Wild Beasts

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“Electronic brains may help us to use our heads but will not excuse us from that duty, and as to our hearts-cardiograms cannot diagnose what may be most ill about them, or confirm what may be best. The faithful woman and the versatile brave man, the wakeful intelligence open to inspiration or grace-these are still exemplary for our kind, as they always were and always will be.”

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Book:The Third Kind of Knowledge: Memoirs & Selected Writings

Source: The Third Kind of Knowledge: Memoirs & Selected Writings

“As a soldier, I've served with the most brave people in an institution that's built on integrity, honor, and duty.”

People Duty Honor Integrity Built Institutions Brave Soldier

Author:Tulsi Gabbard

“As a soldier, I've served with the most brave people in an institution that's built on integrity, honor, and duty. This is why I'm working very hard to support Senator Bernie Sanders - not only to get through the Democratic primary, but also to win the presidency. He is the only candidate on both sides who understands the cost of war, who has that foresight to keep our country safe, and who will make sure that our military power is not being when and where it shouldn't be.”

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Author:Tulsi Gabbard

“A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)”

Men Seems Easy Walks Path Duty Honor Cost Late Brave Every Man

Book:A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One

Source: A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One