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Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld.
Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. -La Rochefoucauld.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his
settled purpose, either by the misdirected read more
The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his
settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow
citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.
[Lat., Justum et tenacem propositi virum
Non civium ardor prava jubentium,
Non vultus instantis tyranni,
Mente quatit solida.]
As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It read more
As to honor -- you know -- it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.
The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.
We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is
happening to our neighbours.
We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is
happening to our neighbours.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain.
It is curious-curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain.
