what do you think this quote means, a coward dies a thousand deaths a soldier dies but once?
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A coward worries about death (or other things) all the time. So the person who said the quote is equating worrying all the time to "little deaths". Presumably a soldier goes through life with confidence and only dies upon his (or her) actual cessation of life. The moral of the story is, quit worrying about crap you have no control over!
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k.g. is right. It's like he's saying "To live or not to live, that is the question..." then he goes on to wonder if it's better to live and suffer or take the "cowardly" way out and end it all.\n\nHAMLET: To be, or not to be--that is the question: \nWhether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer \nThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune \nOr to take arms against a sea of troubles \nAnd by opposing end them. To die, to sleep-- \nNo more--and by a sleep to say we end \nThe heartache, and the thousand natural shocks \nThat flesh is heir to. 'Tis a consummation \nDevoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep-- \nTo sleep--perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub, \nFor in that sleep of death what dreams may come \nWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil, \nMust give us pause. There's the respect \nThat makes calamity of so long life. \nFor who would bear the whips and scorns of time, \nTh' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely \nThe pangs of despised love, the law's delay, \nThe insolence of office, and the spurns \nThat patient merit of th' unworthy takes, \nWhen he himself might his quietus make \nWith a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, \nTo grunt and sweat under a weary life, \nBut that the dread of something after death, \nThe undiscovered country, from whose bourn \nNo traveller returns, puzzles the will, \nAnd makes us rather bear those ills we have \nThan fly to others that we know not of? \nThus conscience does make cowards of us all, \nAnd thus the native hue of resolution \nIs sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, \nAnd enterprise of great pitch and moment \nWith this regard their currents turn awry \nAnd lose the name of action. -- Soft you now, \nThe fair Ophelia! -- Nymph, in thy orisons \nBe all my sins remembered.
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I think the count for soldiers is higher as of the fact of the war. Soldiers also die for a purpose where as teens due it out of pure stupidity as some may proclaim.\n\nBeing a soldier is an honor.\n- Ray
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Yep I think they hit it right on the head. I think the great war had a very deep and tragic meaning to the British, much like the Civil War to the Americans. I took a tour of Flanders given by a British Army officer. Early war it was Chlorine, burns up your lungs...It doesent kill you right away and they put the guy in the cart and watched him die slowly. He didnt get his mask on in time.Remeber at the start of the poem it talked about how tired they were and they really wasnt paying attention to to gas shells being fired at them. Gas shells usually are not as loud as regular high explosive shells. The early masks were basically chemically treated sacks with cellophane "glas" to see out of.Not easy to put on in a hurry.
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It is from a poem called "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Tennyson.  It was written after Tennyson read about The Charge of the Light Brigade that happened during the Crimean War:\n\n<second stanza>\n\n'Forward, the Light Brigade!'\nWas there a man dismay'd?\nNot tho' the soldiers knew\n   Some one had blunder'd:\nTheirs not to make reply,\nTheirs not to reason why,\nTheirs but to do & die,\nInto the valley of Death\n   Rode the six hundred.\n\nIt basically means that soldiers on the battlefield are just following orders and they don't have time to consider the validity or consequences of their actions, lest they be killed in the moment that they do so.
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Hero ofcourse, every one is a Hero who dies in a war
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Sic vis pacem parabellum\n"If you desire peace, prepare for war."\n\nPeace is won through war, and can only be truly appreciated after it has been fought, bled, and died for. Being a pacifist will make you a victim. We can't just be the "nice guy" to the world and expect to be respected or taken seriously. Would you respect someone who just kisses everyone's a*s, even after he has been repeatedly kicked in the balls? I want peace (believe it or not), but not at the expense of our national sovereignty and dignity. Simply bowing to the demands of dictators and terrorists to avoid war isn't peace, that is scarcely better than slavery. I would rather die a free man with a gun in my hands than live for a hundred years by our enemy's permission. \n\nREMEMBER 9/11\nNEVER FORGIVE! NEVER FORGET!\nPEACE THROUGH VICTORY!
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It seems truly befitting of a man who has seen the horrors of young men and women dieing to have such a sentiment.  Preventive wars are immoral and illegal under international law.  You end up killing more than the enemy, as our current war has clearly illustrated, and causing more problems than you [can] solve.\n\nHe also said: \n\n"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."
925727
Agreed, although we are in Afghanistan.  I never really understood saying "Support Our Troops" while sending them to die.  That's great support.
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I couldn't find the quote, but I found a site with a bunch of similiar quotes.\n\nhttp://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/War
30192
It means tough it out or being brave. The oldest orgins I'm aware occured in England during the war.
791075
In the statement, you said he "commits suicide". It's therefore understood that he was successful in taking his life and no one saved him. So that means that he cannot contribute to society anymore. If you meant that he tried to commit suicide but didn't succeed, then he will continue to live and maybe contribute to society. But the statement as written is valid.
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I prefer the philosophy of George S. Patton.\n\n"Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."
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The veteran represents a nation proud and strong;\nInspiring her to do what is right and not what's wrong.\nSadly he sits, and we are wondering as to why\nThis soldier of old has a tear in his eye.\n\nWatching with disbelief so quietly, brave, and tall;\nThe nation he fought for is together for the good of all.\nThis obscured enemy will eventually learn about defeat\nAs God guides his nation back on her feet.\n\nThis veteran has witnessed her sufferings in the past -\nWars, assassinations, and the Oklahoma blast.\nNow, we need not wonder why there's a tear in his eye,\nAs he watches the devastation that started in the sky.\n\nThe lives lost in Pennsylvania, Manhattan, and DC\nWill not have died in vain, on this we all will agree.\nSo, to the veteran with the tear glistening in his eye,\nWe ask that you not worry on us you can rely.\n\nThe battles he fought helped mold us today;\nThe tear in his eye will now be wiped away.\nHis nation will comfort this veteran of old,\nAs the facts of what happened begin to unfold.
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I believe it refers to death.  The term is the title of a poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, about dying.  You can read it at the url below.
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I think it means things are going to get worse before they get better. I really like that quote. I do not know where it originated but it is inspiring.
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1)Life is like a play\nWomen and men just go about playing or doign their part\nThey enter through birth and have their exits through death\nA man can cahnge and have many different emotions and characteristics in a lifetime\n\n2)We are people that area made of unreal thoughts and emotions, we are merely fantasies, and our life is all a dream we are not really living\n\n3)The world has many oppurtunities and I am goign to go for tehm every chance I get. I am goign to make the whole world open to me, anything is possible for me.\n\n4)He was a man of laughter, a fool, yeat he was a good man\n\n5)Not everything that it wonderful and gorgeous has to be gold.\n\n6)You cannot say something for no reason, everyhting anyone sasy they say for a reason\n\n7)Although this seems crazy there is somehow some goodness in it, there is reasoning behind these crazy actions\n\n8)Cowards are ashamed many times before they die becasue they are not brave (every time they are ashamed they die). The valiant however never are ashamed they fight and do what they believe in and then die.