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Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somew...

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Tumble me down, and I will sitUpon my ruines (smiling yet:)Teare me to tatters; yet I'le bePatient i...

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Does it make you brave to stick your hand in a bear's mouth? Would you do it again just because you ...

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...with a strong strong glow of courage, drank off the potion.

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Robert Louis StevensonThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?

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Robert Louis StevensonThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

He felt ready to face the devil, and strutted in the ballroom with the swagger of a cavalier.

I decided to tell the truth even if it meant being pointed at.

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer.

The future doesn't belong to the light-hearted. It belongs to the brave.

I like to call a spade a spade in politics and in everything else. That's why the zionists and the a...

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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk bravery is a rampart of defense.

Neither have they hearts to stay Nor wit enough to run away.

Neither have they hearts to stay Nor wit enough to run away.

Neither have they hearts to stay Nor wit enough to run away.

Neither have they hearts to stay Nor wit enough to run away.

Neither have they hearts to stay Nor wit enough to run away.

Neither have they hearts to stay Nor wit enough to run away.

Neither have they hearts to stay Nor wit enough to run away.

Neither have they hearts to stay Nor wit enough to run away.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it i...

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Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pr...

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The way we are living,timorous or bold,will have been our life.

If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everyth...

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Isn't bravery always sort of beautiful?

He lay back, put his arm over his eyes, and tried to hold onto the anger, because the anger made him...

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A brave man could think. A coward couldn't.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.

Tim Stoutheart was afraid, too,” I said. “But he went on. I expect you to do the same.

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Stephen KingThe Wind Through the Keyhole

The likelihood that your acts of resistance cannot stop the injustice does not exempt you from actin...

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Susan SontagAt the Same Time: Essays and Speeches

I can’t go down without a fight. Only I keep wishing I could think of a way to… to show the Capitol ...

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Courage only counts when you can count.

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Suzanne CollinsGregor the Overlander

They were all becoming brothers, in the manner he had seen before: facing death together was the gre...

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The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her fri...

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Proximity to power has an unsurprising ability to mutate a politician's spinal cord into bright yell...

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I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

Standing there at the stage door to the rest of your life. Time to dip your toe into the deep end. T...

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That’s the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they’re suffering, when something o...

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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with...

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Esk felt that bravery was called for, but on a night like this bravery lasted only as long as a cand...

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Mission motto, sir," said Carrot cheerfully. "Morituri Nolumus Mori. Rincewind suggested it.""I imag...

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It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

But man is a Noble Animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing Nativities and D...

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but to live manfully.

Such I hold to be the genuine use of Gunpowder: that it makes all men tall.

We could be cowards if we had courage enough.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

We could be cowards if we had courage enough.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

We could be cowards if we had courage enough.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

We could be cowards if we had courage enough.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

We could be cowards if we had courage enough.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

We could be cowards if we had courage enough.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

We could be cowards if we had courage enough.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

We could be cowards if we had courage enough.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could...

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For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscrip...

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ThucydidesHistory of the Peloponnesian War

It was not courage, exactly; the object was not valor. Rather, they were too frightened to be coward...

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It’s a great lesson about not being too precious about your writing. You have to try your hardest to...

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Danger confronted properly is not something a man must fear.

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Tom ClancyThe Hunt for Red October

Well I won't back downNo I won't back downYou can stand me up at the gates of hellBut I won't back d...

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Tom PettyConversations with Tom Petty

If you're not afraid, how can you be really brave?

Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

What is wrong with you?' I shake my head. 'Pull it together.' And that's what it feels like: pulling...

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Thank you for your honesty," Niles says. The Candor repeat the phrase under their breath. All around...

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It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.

I think I speak for everyone," he says, "when I say you have earned the title of Dauntless".

There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life f...

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There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes bravery involves laying down your life f...

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The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was...

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A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.

I have realized that part of being Dauntless is being willing to make things more difficult for your...

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Sometimes it isn't fighting that's brave, it's facing the death you know is coming.

It’s not about Al,” I snap. “It’s about everyone watching! Everyone who now seeshurling themselves i...

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We believe in bravery. We believe in taking action. We believe in freedom from fear and in acquiring...

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Now it seems like no matter what I decide, I'll be betraying someone.

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Veronica RothFour: A Divergent Story Collection

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something ...

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But then he stops at the door frame and says, It's 9:24. Telling me the time is a small act of betra...

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maybe here, in dauntless, bravery is the highest form of wisdom. the acknowledgement that life can a...

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In the chaos of sentiments and passions which defend a barricade, there is something of everything; ...

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He was fond of saying, "There is a bravery of the priest as well as the bravery of a colonel of drag...

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Victor HugoLes Misérables

It was his power, his gift, suddenly to shed all superfluities, to shrink and diminish so that he lo...

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poor boy! I never knew you, Yet I think I could not refuse this moment to die for you, if that would...

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Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees ...

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Showing up is eighty percent of life.

It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.

A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West ...

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If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of brav...

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