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"Arya watched them die and said nothing. What good did it do you to be brave? ... There were no brave people on that march, only scared and hungry ones."
"— How can a man be brave when he's afraid ? — It is the only time a man can be brave."
"Rebus in angustis facile est contemnere vitam; Fortiter ille facit qui miser esse potest."
"There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck! A man who's not afraid to say his say, Though a whole town's against him."
"Rewa was brave. At least, she was thick-witted enough to be able to ignore personal danger to a great extent."
"Some of the bravest political work in this country and around the world has happened because people often too young to grasp their own mortality stick their necks out. The job of the rest of us is to rise to the occasion of their bravery. The young inspire the middle-aged and old with courage, and they project our vision where it belongs, into the future."
"Quocirca vivite fortes, fortiaque adversis opponite pectora rebus"
"The god-like hero sate On his imperial throne: His valiant peers were placed around, Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound (So should desert in arms be crowned). The lovely Thais, by his side, Sate like a blooming Eastern bride In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserve the fair."
"Fortem Posce Animum Pray for God to give you a Brave Soul"
"It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave."
"I wonder if this is what bravery is: adrenaline plus love plus absolute stupidity."
"Fortis vero, dolorem summum malum judicans; aut temperans, voluptatem summum bonum statuens, esse certe nullo modo potest."
"The truly brave, When they behold the brave oppressed with odds, Are touched with a desire to shield and save:— A mixture of wild beasts and demi-gods Are they—now furious as the sweeping wave, Now moved with pity; even as sometimes nods The rugged tree unto the summer wind, Compassion breathes along the savage mind."
"Brave men were living before Agamemnon."
"All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave."
"A brave man is one who admits his fear. Only a fool believes himself invincible."
"I'll say this for the Queen. She was brave—or possibly stupid. It's easy to mistake the two."
"Erubuit: salva res est."
"Yet will she blush, here be it said, To hear her secrets so bewrayed."
"From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks, Ten thousand little loves and graces spring To revel in the roses."
"While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought."
"L'innocence à rougir n'est point accoutumée."
"Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs faiblesses et de leur vanité."
"Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn."
"Blushing is the colour of virtue."
"The rising blushes, which her cheek o'er-spread, Are opening roses in the lily's bed."
"A blush is no language: only a dubious flag-signal which may mean either of two contradictories."
"Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my boy; that is the complexion of virtue.""
"We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blushed before."
"Pure friendship's well-feigned blush."
"'Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so fast, But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past."
"Blushed like the waves of hell."
"So sweet the blush of bashfulness, E'en pity scarce can wish it less!"
"The man that blushes is not quite a brute."
"Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to."
"Come, quench your blushes and present yourself That which you are, mistress o' the feast."
"And bid the cheek be ready with a blush Modest as morning when she coldly eyes The youthful Phœbus."
"Two red fires in both their faces blazed; She thought he blush'd, * * * And, blushing with him, wistly on him gazed."
"Where now I have no one to blush with me, To cross their arms and hang their heads with mine."
"By noting of the lady I have mark'd A thousand blushing apparitions To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames. In angel whiteness beat away those blushes."
"Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes, That banish what they sue for."
"I will go wash; And when my face is fair, you shall perceive Whether I blush or no."
"Such was the colour—when her cheek Spoke what the lip might never speak. The crimson flush which could confess All that we hoped—but dared not guess. That blush which through the world is known To love, and to the rose alone—"
"The apple blossoms' shower of pearl, The pear tree’s rosier hue, As beautiful as woman's blush, As evanescent too."
"What betraying things blushes are ! Like sealing wax in the juvenile riddle, a blush "burns to keep a secret.""
"Bello è il rossore, ma è incommodo qualche volta."
"I pity bashful men, who feel the pain Of fancied scorn and undeserved disdain, And bear the marks upon a blushing face, Of needless shame, and self-impos'd disgrace."
"Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, Half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, And flare up bodily, wings and all."
"An Arab, by his earnest gaze, Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes; A smile within his eyelids plays And into words his longing gushes."
"We thinke no greater blisse than such To be as be we would, When blessed none but such as be The same as be they should."