"Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.
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“A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise.”
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“What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.”