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"Patroclus, lov'd of all my martial train, Beyond mankind, beyond myself, is slain!"
Alexander Pope / The Iliad of Homer. Book xviii. Line 103.

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"But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him."
Charles Wolfe / The Burial of Sir John Moore.

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"Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds: At which the universal host up sent A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 540.

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"There is in souls a sympathy with sounds; And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased. With melting airs or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies. How soft the music of those village bells Falling at intervals upon the ear In cadence sweet!"
William Cowper / The Task. Book vi. Winter Walk at Noon. Line 1.

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"We 'll have a swashing and a martial outside, As many other mannish cowards have."
William Shakespeare / As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 3.

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"A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, "I" do not hit, "it" hits all by itself."
Bruce Lee / Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon (1973); In a conversation with an older member of the temple.

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"No American will think it wrong of me if I proclaim that to have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy. I could not foretell the course of events. I do not pretend to have measured accurately the martial might of Japan, but now at this very moment I knew the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! ... Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to powder."
Winston Churchill / The Second World War, Volume III: The Grand Alliance (1950) Chapter 32 (Pearl Harbor).

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