True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike.
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. - David Mallet
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue, where patience, honor, sweet humility, and calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish.
- David Mallet
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it. - David Mallet
I courted fame but as a spur to brave and honest deeds; who despises fame will soon renounce the virtues that deserve it.
True valor, on virtue founded strong, meets all events alike. - David Mallet
The wailing owl screams solitary to the mournful moon. - David Mallet
The wailing owl screams solitary to the mournful moon.
Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee. - David Mallet
Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul that can support despair, supports not thee.
What proves the hero truly great,Is never, never to despair. - David Mallet
What proves the hero truly great,Is never, never to despair.
O grant me, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great; More than enough, for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends. - David Mallet
O grant me, Heaven, a middle state, Neither too humble nor too great; More than enough, for nature's ends, With something left to treat my friends.
A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it. - David Mallet
A sovereign's great example forms a people; the public breast is noble or vile as he inspires it.
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