"Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms though arms we need not as a call to battle though embattled we are but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out 'rejoicing in hope patient in tribulation' a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny poverty disease and war itself."
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"Please understand there is no depression in this house and we are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist."
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"The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves or on whom she simply depends is want of courage."
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"The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it."
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"Fight on my merry men all I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down for to bleed a while Then I'll rise and fight with you again."
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"The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm 'O God you will save me if you wish but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight."
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"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."
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"If one is forever cautious can one remain a human being?"
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"Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared."
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"A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our days. The Western world has lost its civic courage both as a whole and separately in each country in each government in each political party and of course in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite causing an impression that the loss of courage extends to the entire society."
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"A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace."
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"Showing up is eighty percent of life."
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"We could be cowards if we had courage enough."
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"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."
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"The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue."
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"O God give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed courage to change what should be changed and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other."
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"Many become brave when brought to bay."
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"Here I stand. I can do no other. God help me. Amen."
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"You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself."
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"Why not" is a slogan for an interesting life."
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