, I would
not be elsewhere for thousands." At the battle of Trafalgar, when he
was shot and was being carried below, he covered his face, that those
fighting might not know their chief had fallen.

In a skirmish at Salamanca, while the enemy's guns were pouring shot
into his regiment, Sir William Napier's men became disobedient. He at
once ordered a halt, and flogged four of the ringleaders under fire.
The men yielded at once, and then marched three miles under a heavy
cannonade as coolly as if it were a review.

Execute your resolutions immediately. Thoughts are but dreams until
their effects be tried. Does competition trouble you? work away; what
is your competitor but a man? _Conquer your place in the world_, for
all things serve a brave soul. Combat difficulty manfully; sustain
misfortune bravely; endure poverty nobly; encounter disappointment
courageously. The influence of the brave man is contagious and creates
an epidemic of noble zeal in all about him. Every day sends to the
grave obscure men who have only remained in obscurity because their
timidity has prevented them from making a first effort; and who, if
they could have been induced to begin, would in all probability have
gone great lengths in the career of usefulness and fame. "No great
deed is done," says George Eliot, "by falterers who ask for certainty."

After the great inward struggle was over, and he had determined to
remain loyal to his principles, Thomas More walked cheerfully to the
block. His wife called him a fool for staying in a dark, damp, filthy
prison when he might have his liberty by merely renouncing his
doctrines, as some of the bishops had done. But Thomas More preferred
death to dishonor.

His daughter showed the power of love to drive away fear. She remained
true to her father when all others, even her mother, had forsaken him.
After his head had been cut off and exhibited on a pole on London
Bridge, the poor girl begged it of the authorities, and requested that
it be buried in the coffin with her. Her request was granted, for her
death soon occurred.

When Sir Walter Raleigh came to the scaffold he was very faint, and
began his speech to the crowd by saying that during the last two days
he had been visited by two ague fits. "If, therefore, you perceive any
weakness in me, I beseech you ascribe it to my sickness rather than to
myself." He took the ax and kissed the blade, and said to the sheriff:
"'T is a sharp med