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To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.
To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to read more
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares read more
It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.
A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.
Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
