1. he showed great heroism in battle
2. he received a medal for valor
1. "The better part of valour, is discretion."
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William Shakespeare, King Henry IV
2. "In a false quarrel there is no true valour."
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Quote by William Shakespeare
3. "Fear to do base unworthy things is valour; If they be done to us, to suffer them Is valour too."
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Walter Scott, Guy Mannering - Complete
4. "Toad's ancestral home, won back by matchless valour, consummate strategy, and a proper handling of sticks."
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Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
5. "That defense alone is effectual, sure and durable which depends upon yourself and your own valour."
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Quote by Niccolò Machiavelli
6. "for next to God, who is our strength, all depends upon the valour of our arms."
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Bernal Díaz del Castillo, The Conquest of New Spain
7. "Death, would that you scorned to take the coward's life, And came only to valour!"
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Quote by Medlar Lucan
8. "Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned."
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David Gemmell, Shield of Thunder
9. "and, assure thyself, there is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man’s commendation with woman than report of valour."
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William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
10. "Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline."
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Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire