Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.
Joseph Addison
Hope
Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.
Joseph Addison
The Campaign. Line 219.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.