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 Cowards are cruel, but the brave
 Love mercy, and delight to save.  
 Cowards are cruel, but the brave
 Love mercy, and delight to save. 
The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start read more
The coward wretch whose hand and heart can bear to torture ought below, Is ever first to quail and start from the slightest pain or equal foe.
A coward, a most devout coward; religious in it.
A coward, a most devout coward; religious in it.
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.
Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does. What read more
Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does. What passes through his mind is his own affair.
 Thou dost shame
 That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!
  Thou little valiant, great in read more 
 Thou dost shame
 That bloody spoil. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!
  Thou little valiant, great in villainy!
   Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!
    Thou fortune's champion, that dost never fight
     But when her humorous ladyship is by
      To teach thee safety! 
It is better to be killed than frightened to death.
It is better to be killed than frightened to death.
 You souls of geese,
 That bear the shapes of men, how have you run
  From slaves that read more 
 You souls of geese,
 That bear the shapes of men, how have you run
  From slaves that apes would men!