Part 46 (2/2)
”That's a brave ton, when he saw a soldier turn pale as he er, and faces it”
”There are many cardinals and bishops at Worms,” said a friend to Luther, ”and they will burn your body to ashes as they did that of John Huss” Luther replied: ”Although they should , and that should flah it and appear before theh there were as many devils there as there are tiles upon the roofs of the houses” Another e will surely arrest you” He replied: ”It is es for nine days together”
A Western paper recently invited the surviving Union and Confederate officers to give an account of the bravest act observed by each during the Civil War Colonel Thoinson said that at a dinner at Beaufort, S C, where wine flowed freely and ribald jests were bandied, Dr Miner, a slight, boyish felloho did not drink, was told that he could not go until he had drunk a toast, told a story, or sung a song He replied: ”I cannot sing, but I will give a toast, although I must drink it in water It is 'Our Mothers'” The men were so affected and ashamed that they took hi such adfor praise and power It takes courage to wear threadbare clothes while your coe to rerow rich by fraud It takes courage to say ”No” squarely when those around you say ”Yes” It takes courage to do your duty in silence and obscurity while others prosper and grow fae to un world, and to pass for what you really are
It takes courage and pluck to be outvoted, beaten, laughed at, scoffed, ridiculed, derided, ainst you, but
”They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three”
”An honestbarks at hiht ridiculous
”Tis he is the coho proves false to his vows, To his h or a sneer”
The youth who starts out by being afraid to speak what he thinks will usually end by being afraid to think what he wishes
Hoe shrink from an act of our own! We live as others live Custom or fashi+on, or your doctor or minister, dictates, and they in turn dare not depart froes, everything must conform, or we are ostracized Who dares conduct his household or business affairs in his oay, and snap his fingers at Dae for a public e to refuse to follow custom when it is injurious to his health and morals How e an issue than to stand squarely on his feet like a est reatest hero is a coward soh to draw his sword to defend his Master, but he could not stand the ridicule and the finger of scorn of the h priest's hall, and he actually denied even the acquaintance of the Master he had declared he would die for
Don't be like Uriah Heep, begging everybody's pardon for taking the liberty of being in the world There is nothing attractive in ti lovable in fear Both are defornified and graceful
Bruno, condee: ”You are more afraid to pronounce my sentence than I am to receive it”
Anne Askew, racked until her bones were dislocated, never flinched, but looked her tormentor calmly in the face and refused to adjure her faith
”I should have thought fear would have kept you fro so far,”
said a relative who found the little boy Nelson wandering a long distance from home ”Fear?” said the future ad is ie is victory, timidity's defeat_
That si unattended and unar, to confront the colossal Goliath with his massive armor, is the sublimest audacity the world has ever seen
”Dent, I wish you would get down and see what is thethere,” said Grant, when he and Colonel Dent were riding through the thickest of a fire that had become so concentrated and uess looking after your horse's legs can wait,” said Dent; ”it is siht,” said Grant; ”if you don't want to see to it, I will” He disun to cut the horse's leg, examined it deliberately, and cliot a horse that you think a great deal of, you should never take any chances with hier he would have gone dead lame, and would perhaps have been ruined for life”
Wellington said that at Waterloo the hottest of the battle raged round a fare, which was so iiven to hold it at any hazard or sacrifice At last the powder and ball ran short and the hedges took fire, surrounding the orchard with a wall of flaer had been sent for a toward the faron, with the reckless daring of an English boy, spurred his struggling and terrified horses through the burning heap; but the flaht the powder, which exploded in an instant, sending wagon, horses, and rider in fragments into the air
For a instant the driver of the second wagon paused, appalled by his co that the flames, beaten back for the moment by the explosion, afforded hi breach and, aarrison, landed his terrible cargo safely within Behind hied more fiercely than ever”
At the battle of Friedland a cannon-ball ca soldier instinctively dodged Napoleon looked at hily said: ”My friend, if that ball were destined for you, though you were to burrow a hundred feet under ground it would be sure to find you there”
When the hted and the Union troops were drawn up ready to charge the enemy's works as soon as the explosion should make a breach But seconds, minutes, and tens of minutes passed, without a sound frohty and Sergeant Rees volunteered to exaalleries they hurried in silence, not knowing but that they were advancing to a horrible death They found the defect, fired the train anew, and soon a terrible upheaval of earth gave the signal to en, as Nelson walked the deck slippery with blood and covered with the dead, he said: ”This is ork, and this day may be the last to any of us in a moment But, mark me, I would not be elsewhere for thousands” At the battle of Trafalgar, when he was shot and was being carried below, he covered his face, that those fighting ht not know their chief had fallen