Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
Un enfant en ouvrant ses yeux doit voir la patrie, et jusqu'à la mort ne voir qu'elle.
The infant, on first opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.
Breathes there the man with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
Scon'—Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto VI.
St. 1.
Land of my sires! what mortal hand
Can e'er untie the filial band
That knits me to thy rugged strand!
Scott—Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto VI.
St: 2.
My foot is on my native heath, and my name is
MacGregor.
Scott—Rob Boy. Ch. XXXIV.
La patrie est aux Iieux oil l'ame est enchainee.
Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound.
Voltaire—Le Fanatisme. I. 2.
COURAGE
(See also Bravery, Daring)
I think the Romans call it Stoicism.
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| work = Cato. Act 1. Sc. 4.
The soul, secured in her existence, smiles
At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.
| author = Addison
| work = Cato. Act V. Sc. 1.
The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand,
Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.
Blair—The Grave. Pt. I. L. 58.
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| text = <poem>One who never turned his back but marched
breast forward,
Never doubted clouds would break,
Never dreamed, though right were worsted,
wrong would triumph,
Held we fall to rise, are baffled to flight better,
Sleep to wake.
Robert Browning—Epilogue. Asolando.
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We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.
Joseph Chamberlain—Speech at Southwick,
Jan. 15, 1906.
A man of courage is also full of faith.
Cicero—The Tusadan Disputations.
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Sta come torre ferma, che non crolla
Giammai la cima per sofflar de' venti.
Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend
its stately summit to the tempest's shock.
Dante—Purgatorio. V. 14.
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Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.
Dryden—Amphitryon. Act III. Sc. 1.
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| text = <poem>The charm of the best courages is that they
are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.
Emerson—Society and Solitude. Courage.
Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend
To mean devices for a sordid end.
Courage—an independent spark from Heaven's
bright throne,
By which the soul stands raised, triumphant
high, alone.
Great in itself, not praises of the crowd,
Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud.
Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above,
By which those great in war, are great in love.
The spring of all brave acts is seated here,
As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.
Farquhar—Love and a Bottle. Part of dedication to the Lord Marquis of Carmarthen.
Stop shallow water still running, it will rage;
tread on a worm and it will turn.
Robert Greene—Worth of Wit.
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| text = Few persons have courage enough to appear
as good as they really are.
J. C. and A. W. Hare—Guesses at Truth.
Tender handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as silks remains.
Aaron Hill—Verses Written on a Window.
O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong,
And let no warrior in the heat of fight
Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes;
For more of those who shrink from shame are safe
Than fall in battle, while with those who flee
Is neither glory nor reprieve from death.
Justum et tenacem propositi virum
Non civium ardor prava jubentium,
Non vultus instantis tyranni,
Mente quatit solida.
The man who is just and resolute will not
be moved from his settled purpose, either
by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens,
or by the threats of an imperious tyrant.
Horace—Carmina. III. 3. 1.
