SOLDIER
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As that great captain, Ziska, would have a drum made of his skin when he was dead, because he thought the very noise of it would put his enemies to flight.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
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If my soldiers were to begin to reflect, not one of them would remain in the ranks.—FREDERICK THE GREAT
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The sex is ever to a soldier kind.—POPE, The Odyssey of Homer
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Ben Battle was a soldier bold,
And used to war's alarms;
But a cannon-ball took off his legs,
So he laid down his arms!—THOMAS Hoon, Faithless Nellie Gray
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It's Tommy this, an' Tommy that,
an' "Chuck 'im out, the brute!"
But it's "Savior of 'is country," when
the guns begin to shoot.—KIPLING, Tommy
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Back of every soldier is a woman.—EDGAR LEE MASTERS, Spoon River Anthology
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The blood of the soldier makes the glory of the general.—Proverb
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Soldiers are martyrs to ambition.—Proverb
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Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land,
Drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.
In the great hour of destiny they stand,
Each with his feuds, and jealousies, and sorrows.
Soldiers are sworn to action; they must win.
Some flaming, fatal climax with their lives,
Soldiers are dreamers; when the guns begin
They think of firelit homes, clean beds, and wives.—SIEGFRIED SASSOON, Dreamers
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And telling me, the sovereign'st thing on earth
Was parmaceti for an inward bruise;
And that it was great pity, so it was,
This villanous saltpetre should be digg'd
Out of the bowels of the harmless earth,
Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd
So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns,
He would himself have been a soldier.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
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Food for powder, food for powder; they'll fill a pit as well as better.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
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The professional military mind is by necessity an inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.—H. G. WELLS, The Outline of History
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Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he
That every man in arms would wish to be?—WORDSWORTH, Character of the Happy Warrior
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