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Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.
Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.
The soul, secured in her existence, smiles
At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.
The soul, secured in her existence, smiles
At the drawn dagger, and defies its point.
What a new face courage puts on everything!
What a new face courage puts on everything!
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.
The brave man is not he who feels no fear. For that were stupid and irrational. But he, whose noble read more
The brave man is not he who feels no fear. For that were stupid and irrational. But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, and bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to
the tempest's shock.
[It., Sta read more
Be steadfast as a tower that doth not bend its stately summit to
the tempest's shock.
[It., Sta come torre ferme, che non crolla
Giammai la cima per soffiar de' venti.]
I think the Romans call it Stoicism.
I think the Romans call it Stoicism.
In treat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will read more
In treat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. [Ruth 1:16].
