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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Culture," The Conduct of Life (1860).)
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Courage without conscience is a wild beast.
(Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899), U.S. lawyer, orator. Speech, May 29, 1882, New York City.)
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Spend the years of learning squandering
Courage for the years of wandering
(Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. "Gnome," in Collected Poems in English and French, p. 7, Grove Press (1984).)
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As to moral courage, I have rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage; I mean instantaneous courage.
(Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), French general, emperor. quoted in Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène, vol. 1, pt. 2, E.A. de Las Casas (1823).
Said by Napoleon at the end of December 1815.)
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'Tis said that courage is common, but the immense esteem in which it is held proves it to be rare. Animal resistance, the instinct of the male animal when cornered, is no doubt common; but the pure article, courage with eyes, courage with conduct, self-possession at the cannon's mouth, cheerfulness in lonely adherence to the right, is the endowment of elevated characters.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "Courage," Society and Solitude (1870).)
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There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
(Patrick, Mrs. Campbell (1865-1940), British actor. My Life and Some Letters, ch. 19 (1922).
Birth name is Beatrice Stella Tanner.)
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Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs
Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.
(Robert Frost (1874-1963), U.S. poet. "For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration.")
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Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
(E.M. (Edward Morgan) Forster (1879-1970), British novelist, essayist. Pharos and Pharillon, "The Poetry of C.P. Cavafy," in the Pharillon section (1923).)
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A man of great common sense and good taste—meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
(George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. "Notes: Julius Caesar," Caesar and Cleopatra (1906).)
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Courage overrides self-doubt, but does not end it.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection, New York (1993).)
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