Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.
Miracle me no miracles.
The woman who is resolved to be respected can make herself be so even amidst an army of soldiers.
In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were.
There is no proverb that is not true.