That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed on a bed of sickness or a tented field, it is ever the same fair play and admits no foolish distinction. Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.
A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.
Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.
A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
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