"Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself."

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"Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself."

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"When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear."

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"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."

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"When you break rules, break 'em good and hard."

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"A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"And say my glory was I had such friends."

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"Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before."

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"I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love."

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