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FORTITUDE
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That strength or firmness of mind or soul
which enables a person to encounter danger with coolness and
courage, or to bear pain or adversity without murmuring, depression
or despondency. Fortitude is the basis or source of genuine courage
or intrepidity in danger, of patience in suffering, of forbearance
under injuries, and of magnanimity in all conditions of life....
Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. --1828
Webster's Dictionary
The human race are sons of Sorrow born;
And each must have his portion. Vulgar minds
Refuse, or crouch beneath their load; the Brave
Bear theirs without repining. --Thomsen
Which comes to punish us, and we punish
it,
Seeming to bear it lightly. --Shakespeare
Have I not had my brain sear'd, my heart
riven,
Hopes sapp'd, name blighted, life's life lied away?
And only not to Desperation driven,
Because not altogether of such clay,
As rots into the soul of those whom I survey. --Byron
Existence may be born, and the deep root
Of Life and Sufferance make its firm abode
In bare and desolated bosoms: mute
The camel labours with the heaviest load,
And the wolf dies in silence, --not bestow'd
In vain should such example be; if they,
Things of ignoble or of savage mood,
Endure and shrink not, we of nobler clay
May temper it to bear, --it is but for a day. --Byron
For our light affliction, which is but
for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal
weight of glory... --2 Cor. 4:17
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and
of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for
the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest. --Josh.
1:9
The greatest man is he who chooses the
right with invincible Resolution: who resists the sorest temptation
from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully;
who is the calmest in storms, and whose reliance on Truth, on
Virtue, on God, is the most unfaltering. --Channing
True Fortitude is seen in the great exploits
That Justice warrants, and that Wisdom guides:
All else is tow'ring Phrensy and Distraction. --Addison
The Mind I sway by, and the heart I bear,
Shall never sagg with Doubt, nor shake with Fear. --Shakespeare
Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss,
But cheerly seek how to redress their harms,
What though the mast be now blown over-board,
The cable broke, the holding anchor lost,
And half our sailors swallow'd in the flood?
Yet lives our pilot still: Is't meet, that he
Should leave the helm, and, like a fearful lad,
With tearful eyes, add water to the sea,
And give more strength to that which hath too much;
Whiles, in his moan, the ship splits on the rock,
Which industry and courage might have saved? --Shakespeare
Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state,
My Mind exceeds the compass of her wheel. --Shakespeare
Time hath not yet so dried this Blood of
mine,
Nor Age so eat up my invention,
Nor Fortune made such havoc of my Means,
Nor my bad life reft me so much of Friends,
But they shall find awak'd, in such a kind,
Both strength of limb and Policy of Mind,
Ability in Means, and choice of Friends
To quit me of them thoroughly. --Shakespeare
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