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" For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again. "
Willis's Current Notes: A Series of Articles on Antiquities, Biography ... - Page 61
by George Willis - 1855
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A Collection of Familiar Quotations: With Complete Indices of Authors and ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...fight an other dale. From the Musarum Delicice, compiled by Sir John Mennis and Dr. James Smith. 1640. He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day.* RICHARD GRAFTON. Abridgement of the Chronicles of Englande. 1570. 8vo. " A rule to knowe how many dayes...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 98

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1856 - 594 pages
...distich so often sought in vain in Hudibras is Menander's : avyp o cj)ev'ywv KOI ira\tv fia^aerat. He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day.' Yet after all, though to the sculptor, or to those who have profoundly studied and acquired an exquisite...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 12

Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1856 - 878 pages
...might sometimes think " discretion the better part of valor," and slyly decamp, saying to himself, " He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day." Still, no man will deny that great courage it displayed in War. But it is not the highest kind of courage,...
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Educational Essays

Edward Thomson - Education - 1856 - 426 pages
...body knows it. Do not be troubled: — calm yourself with the consolation of the valorous Falstaff — "He that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day." Keep in a good humor with the world. Mankind are not all rascals, though an honest man wants bread....
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Three Years on the Kansas Border

John McNamara - Kansas - 1856 - 252 pages
...had work before it. Everything was to be done over again. It had to set a tune for these lines : " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." " The Platte Argus" generated, and shot its lightning, and rolled its thunder weekly against the cowards...
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Things Not Generally Known: A Popular Hand-book of Facts Not Readily ...

John Timbs - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1857 - 444 pages
...20. " for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter." He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day. These lines, usually ascribed to Hudibras, are really much older. They are to be found in a book published...
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Sketches, Biographical and Incidental

Edward Thomson - Christian biography - 1857 - 408 pages
...bloodless battle, drove Mesmer from the field, who, however, being young, acted on the principle, " He that fights and runs away, May live to fight another day." He went on curing, and what he lost in credit he made up in noise. But father Hehl followed so close...
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Milledulcia: A Thousand Pleasant Things Selected from "Notes and Queries"

Robert Conger Pell - Anecdotes - 1857 - 436 pages
...will serve only to show its unsoundness. HE THAT FIGHTS AND BUNS AWAY. The often-quoted lines — For he that fights and runs away May live to fight another day, The passage, as it really stands in Hudibras (book iii. canto iii. verse 243), is as follows : —...
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The History of New Bedford, Bristol County, Massachusetts: Including a ...

Daniel Ricketson - Antislavery movements - 1858 - 426 pages
...was a North Briton or Scotchman, and undoubtedly as near as possible adopted the maxim of Hudibras, He that fights and runs away May live to fight another day; for he kept most of the time during the action in the cabin, occasionally showing his head from the...
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The Jesuit in England; with the horrors of the Inquisition in Rome, Volume 526

John Russell (author of Alfred Barton.) - 1858 - 394 pages
...not attempt to retaliate. No, he acted under a better — to his taste — standing rule, " He who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day. But he who is in battle slain, Will never live to fight again." and had at length slipped the bolt, opened...
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