Be Without Fear...

The Knight's Oath in Kingdom of Heaven :

"Be without fear in the face of your enemy. Be brave and upright that God may love thee. Speak the truth even if it leads to your death. Safeguard the helpless, and do no wrong."

Here's  the movie review.

And another...

Great things come in threes...  This is the third of the poem series :)

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IF
by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
    Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
    And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
    If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
    And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
    And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
    And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
    To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
    Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
    Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
    If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
    With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
    And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!

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Another one

Here's another...
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INVICTUS
by William Ernest Henley. 1849–1903
 
Out of the night that covers me
Black as the pit from pole to pole
I thank whatever gods may be
for my unconquerable soul
 
In the felt clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud
Beneath the bludgeoning of chance
My head is bloody but unbowed
 
Beyond this point of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid
 
It matters not how straight the gate
How charged with punishments the scroll
I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE
I AM THE CAPTAIN OF MY SOUL.
 
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First!

...Trying first to get comfortable with Friendster's BLOG feature.  I'll start with a poem, this one has been etched in my mind for so long, i can even recite it backwards, lol :D

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DON'T QUIT

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit --
Rest if you must but don't quit!

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As everyone of us sometimes learns,
And many a fellow turns about,
When he might have won had he stuck it out,
Don't give up though the pace seems slow,
You might succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is farther than it seems,
to a faint and faltering man,
Often the struggler has given up,
When he might have won the victor's cup,
And he learned too late when the night came down,
How close he was to the golden crown.

Sucess if failure turned inside out,
The silver tint of the coulds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
You may be near when it seems afar,
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit,
It's when things seem worst that you musn't quit.

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