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Valor Quotes

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 5, sc. 1, l. [121]

There is always safety in valor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.913, Library of America

A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion.

George Herbert (1842). “The Temple: And the Country Parson”, p.81

Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valor.

William Hazlitt, William Ernest Henley (1902). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Memoirs of Thomas Holcroft. Liber amoris. Characteristics”

Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too.

Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.537

He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.

William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, John Payne Collier, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons (1839). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Henry IV, pt. 2. Henry V. Henry VI, pts. 1-3”, p.189

It is war's prize to take all vantages; And ten to one is no impeach of valor.

William Shakespeare (2015). “King Henry the Sixth: Parts I, II, and III”, p.222, Hackett Publishing