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The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.

Song of the brave, how thrills thy tone As when the Organ's music rolls; No gold rewards, but song alone, The deeds of great and noble souls.

Brave men were living before Agamemnon.

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 are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

No man can be brave who thinks pain the greatest evil; nor temperate, who considers pleasure the highest god.

How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest! . . . . By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

Brave men are brave from the very first.

Toil for the brave! The brave that are no more.

The god-like hero sate On his imperial throne: His valiant peers were placed around, Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound . 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.

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.

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

The brave Love mercy, and delight to save.

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

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

In cold blood he leapt into burning Etna.

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet .

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

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.

'Tis more brave To live, than to die.