03 October 2011

Daring Is The Thing

As we must all expect to leave
our life on this earth, we must earn some renown,
If we can before death; daring is the thing
for a fighting man to be remembered by.
A man must act so
when he means in a fight to frame himself
a long lasting glory; it is not life he thinks of.

Beowulf
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6 comments:

  1. NJS03 October, 2011 07:21

    Sound, sound the clarion fill the fife,
    Throughout the sensual world proclaim,
    One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth and age without a name.
    Sir Walter Scott.

    The there is brave Horatius as well...

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  2. Laguna Beach Fogey03 October, 2011 07:23

    NJS ~ Indeed. Incidentally, I'm unable to post comments to your column (as well as a few others). I think I have been banned.

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  3. w. adam mandelbaum esq.03 October, 2011 08:21

    a hero dies but one death, but a coward gets to shtup his widow.

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  4. Lea Perrins03 October, 2011 09:09

    "Civilization is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the things of the mind, of love, of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling....and if, at the same time the power to act exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed".

    E. Hamilton: The Greek Way

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  5. NJS03 October, 2011 14:49

    LBF - No, you haven't been banned by me. I have to comment on my own site as 'anonymous'! I'll have to look into it all. Don't worry.
    NJS

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  6. Laguna Beach Fogey04 October, 2011 07:14

    NJS ~ Thanks. I assumed it was a blogspot glitch, as there are a few other blogs (e.g., A Gentleman in Almost Every Inch, Modern Cavalier, Mad Dogs and Englishmen) where I'm unable to leave a comment.

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