"Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-winged reapers come."

"The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousness into guiltlessness; guiltlessness into abstemiousness; abstemiousness into cleanliness; cleanliness into godliness."

"If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!"

"Dem Muthigen hilft Gott."

"And care, whom not the gayest can outbrave, Pursues its feeble victim to the grave."

"Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt; And every Grin, so merry, draws one out."

"I could lie down like a tired child, And weep away the life of care Which I have borne, and yet must bear."

"I am sure, care's an enemy to life."

"Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain. Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign."

"Things past redress are now with me past care."

"Care is no cure, but rather a corrosive, For things that are not to be remedied."

"O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night!"

"No, no, he cannot long hold out these pangs; The incessant care and labour of his mind Hath wrought the mure, that should confine it in, So thin that life looks through and will break out."

"For some must watch, while some must sleep: So runs the world away."

"Old Care has a mortgage on every estate, And that's what you pay for the wealth that you get."

"Eat not thy heart; which forbids to afflict our souls, and waste them with vexatious cares."

"Begone, old Care, and I prithee begone from me; For i' faith, old Care, thee and I shall never agree."

"And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs."

"Borne the burden and heat of the day."

"Care that is entered once into the breast Will have the whole possession ere it rest."

"Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath."

"Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy."

"Every man shall bear his own burden."

"For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost, For the want of a rider the battle was lost, For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost— And all for the want of a horseshoe nail."

"For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for want of care about a horse-shoe nail."

"O insensata cura dei mortali, Quanto son defettivi sillogismi Quei che ti fanno in basso batter l'ali!"

"Lugalbanda is wise and he achieves mighty exploits. In preparation of the sweet celestial cakes he added carefulness to carefulness."

"Audentes fortuna juvat."

"Bravery never goes out of fashion."

"Fortes fortuna adjuvat."

"Who combats bravely is not therefore brave: He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave."

"Audentes deus ipse juvat."

"Omne solum forti patria est."

"Audentem Forsque Venusque juvant."

"How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old."

"True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world."

"Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi; sed omnes illacrimabiles Urguentur ignotique longa Nocte, carent quia vate sacro."

"Ardentem frigidus Ætnam insiluit."

"O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of his children and his wife, His home, his parents, living yet or dead. For them, the absent ones, I supplicate, And bid you rally here, and scorn to fly."

"Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause."

"The brave Love mercy, and delight to save."

"Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe: They took the spear, but left the shield."

"The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man."

"Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more."

"Les hommes valeureux le sont au premier coup."

"How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!"

"Hoch klingt das Lied vom braven Mann, Wie Orgelton und Glockenklang; Wer hohes Muths sich rühmen kann Den lohnt nicht Gold, den lohnt Gesang."

"Zwar der Tapfere nennt sich Herr der Länder Durch sein Eisen, durch sein Blut."