Quotes with gauntlet

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• God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.

  ― Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  English poet (1806 - 1861)
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• When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

  ― Robert Green Ingersoll
  American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• compromise
• prayers
• heroism
• prayed
• defies
• throws

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