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Valor: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

V. Apollo has peeped through the shutter, And awaken'd the witty and fair; The boarding-school belle's in a flutter, The breath twopenny post's in despair; The breath of the morning is flinging of the morning is flinging A magic on blossom and spray, And cockneys and sparrows are singing In chorus on Valentine's day.— PRAED — Song for 14th of February.

Saint Valentine is past; Begin these wood-birds but to couple now? Midsummer-Night's Dream. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 144. To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, All in the morning betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your Valentine.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act IV. Sc. 5. L. 48.

But where life is more terrible than death, it then the truest valour is then the truest valour to dare to live. i. to dare to live.— SIR THOMAS BROWNE — Religio Medici. Pt. XLIV.

There is always safety in valor.— EMERSON — English Traits. The Times.

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery.— 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 They' all unseason'd without it.— BEN JONSON — New Inn. Act IV. Sc. 3.

In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land.— MILTON — Sonnet. To the Lord General

Fairfax. 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, ; And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart. To bring it into danger.— Shakespeare — Timon of Athens. Act III. Sc. 5. L. 31.

'Tis much he dares; And, to that dauntless temper of his mind, He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour To act in safety.— Shakespeare — Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 51.

What valour 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?— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. III. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 56.

When valour preys on reason, It eats the sword it fights with.— Shakespeare — Antony and Cleopatra. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 199.

But dream not helm and harness The sign of valor true; Peace hath higher tests of manhood Than battle ever knew. C.— WHITTIER — Poems. The Hero. St. 19.