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Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion.
(not meant to glorify carnivorous practice).
Donkeys have the courage to bray after the death of a lion.
(not meant to glorify carnivorous practice).
Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend
To mean devices for a sordid end.
Courage--an independent read more
Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend
To mean devices for a sordid end.
Courage--an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne,
By which the soul stands raised, triumphant high, alone.
Great in itself, not praises of the crowd,
Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud.
Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above,
By which those great in war, are great in love.
The spring of all brave acts is seated here,
As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear.
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers
Fortune helps the brave.
Fortune helps the brave.
They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear read more
They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
This is courage in a man: to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
Absence from whom we love is worse than death.
Absence from whom we love is worse than death.
