Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare on Veterans Day
1564–1616 England
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How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child!
King Lear (1605)
And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument.
Henry V (1599)
I dare do all that may become a man:
Who dares do more, is none.
Macbeth (1605)
Muster your wits: stand in your own defence;
Or hide your heads like cowards, and fly hence.
Worthy fellows, and like to prove most sinewy sword-men.
Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils.
Henry V (1599)
Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.
Othello (1603)
Many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose-quills.
It is a sword of Spain, the ice-brook’s temper.
Let this my sword report what speech forbears.
Up, sword, and know thou a more horrid hent.
O, now doth Death line his dead chaps with steel;
The swords of soldiers are his teeth, his fangs.
King John (1595)
I do love
My country's good with a respect more tender,
More holy and profound, than mine own life.
Let never day nor night unhallow'd pass,
But still remember what the Lord hath done.
Draw, if you be men. Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.
King John (1598)
List his discourse of war, and you shall hear
A fearful battle render'd you in music.
Henry V (1599)
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