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God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.
God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
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.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
"I'm very brave generally," he went on in a low voice; "only today I happen to have a headache."
"I'm very brave generally," he went on in a low voice; "only today I happen to have a headache."
The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his
settled purpose, either by the misdirected read more
The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his
settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow
citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant.
[Lat., Justum et tenacem propositi virum
Non civium ardor prava jubentium,
Non vultus instantis tyranni,
Mente quatit solida.]
You can't test courage cautiously.
You can't test courage cautiously.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
