"Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning."
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"Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning."
"Bravery is the knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy."
"If you knew how cowardly your enemy is you would slap him."
"Between cowardice and despair valour is gendered."
"Men perish by the sword cowards by disease."
"The most mortifying infirmity in human nature ... is perhaps cowardice."
"Spiritual cowardice is not only weakness but wickedness."
"To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice."
"There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger."
"There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world afraid to face himself."
"To say a person is a coward has no more meaning than to say he is lazy: It simply tells us that some vital potentiality is unrealized or blocked."
"Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice."
"Cowardice is the mother of cruelty."
"A coward turns away but a brave man's choice is danger."
"Cowards cannot see that their greatest safety lies in dauntless courage."
"Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears."
"We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
"Courage is a scorner of things which inspire fear."
"Courage is the right disposition toward fear."
"Courage is ... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."
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