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Sir Hugh Walpole
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| "Because a fellow has failed once or twice, or a dozen times, you
don"t want to set him down as a failure till he"s dead or loses his
courage ? and that"s the same thing." | |
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George Horace Lorimer
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| "Brave men were living before Agamemnon." | |
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace
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| "Bravery never goes out of fashion." | |
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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| "Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, But in seeing
it, and conquering it." | |
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Jean Paul Richter
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| "Courage consists not in hazarding without fear, But being resolutely
minded in a just cause." | |
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Plutarch
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| "Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is
always respected, even when it is associated with vice." | |
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Dr. Samuel Johnson
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| "Courage is a special kind of knowledge; 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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David Ben-Gurion
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| "Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one
case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain." | |
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Dianne de Poitiers
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| "Courage is being scared to death?and saddling up anyway." | |
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John Wayne
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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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Eddie Rickenbacker
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| "Courage is fear holding on a minute longer." | |
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George S. Patton
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| "Courage is like love ? it must have hope to nourish it." | |
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Napoléon Bonaparte
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| "Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every
virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest
reality." | |
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Clive Staples (Jack) Lewis
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| "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that
something else is more important than fear." | |
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Ambrose Redmoon
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| "Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is
the fragile blossom that opens in the snow." | |
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Alice Mackenzie Swaim
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| "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear ? not absence of
fear." | |
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Mark Twain
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| "Courage is simply the willingness to be afraid and act
anyway." | |
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Dr. Robert Anthony
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| "Courage is the capacity to confirm what you can be imagined
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Leo Calvin Rosten
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| "Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount." | |
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Clare Booth Luce
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| "Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace." | |
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Amelia Earhart
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| "Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he
has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a
uniform manner." | |
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Joseph Addison
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| "Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste
of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to
me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come." | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and
direction." | |
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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| "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs,
even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor
spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the
grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." | |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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| "Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the
small ones; when you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to
sleep in peace. God is awake." | |
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Victor Hugo
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| "Have the courage to live. Anyone can die." | |
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Robert Cody
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| "His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best." | |
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Aeschylus
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| "Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing
if it is not ridiculous." | |
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Thornton Niven Wilder
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| "I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength
from distress, and grow brave by reflection. "Tis the business of little
minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves
his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death." | |
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Thomas Paine
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| "I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the
idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It"s when you know
you"re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through
no matter what." | |
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Harper Lee
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| "I"d rather give my life than be afraid to give it." | |
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Lyndon Baines Johnson
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| "If courage wasn"t a standard result of aging, it meant that the
young could somehow acquire it as well." | |
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Lawana Blackwell
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| "If you can"t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." | |
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Harry S. Truman
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| "It is an error to suppose that courage means courage in everything.
Most people are brave only in the dangers to which they accustom
themselves, either in imagination or practice." | |
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Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
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| "It is not who is right, but what is right, that is important." | |
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Thomas Henry Huxley
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| "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." | |
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e. e. cummings
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| "It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really
are." | |
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Unknown
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| "It takes vision and courage to create ? it takes faith and courage
to prove." | |
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Owen D. Young
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| "Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with
others." | |
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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| "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one"s courage." | |
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Anaïs Nin
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| "Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to
end." | |
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Henry Millon De Montherlant
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| "No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after
eating one peanut." | |
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Channing Pollock
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| "No matter how desperate the predicament is, I"m always very much in
earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my
tie, even though I have just landed on my head." | |
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Charlie Chaplin
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| "Often the real test of courage is not to die, but to live." | |
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Conte Vittorio Alfieri
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| "One isn"t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with
potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with
consistency. We can"t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest." | |
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Maya Angelou
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| "One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last
ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be
better for this." | |
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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| "One man with courage is a majority." | |
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Thomas Jefferson
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| "One man with courage makes a majority." | |
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Andrew Jackson
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| "Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which
difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish." | |
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John Quincy Adams
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| "Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable
of doing with the world looking on." | |
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François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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| "Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form." | |
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Sinclair Lewis
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| "Running away will never make you free." | |
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Kenny Loggins
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| "Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it?s as
temporary as you choose." | |
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Christine Comaford
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| "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to
continue that counts." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the
indifferent, and warn the opposed." | |
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Whitney M. Young, Jr.
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| "Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so." | |
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Thomas Carlyle
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| "The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure
one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but
because he is a man of high and heroic temper." | |
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Aristotle
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| "The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess
courage and act accordingly." | |
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Corra Harris
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| "The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without
losing heart." | |
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Robert Green Ingersoll
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| "The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given
me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and
truth." | |
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Albert Einstein
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| "The only kind of courage that matters is the kind that gets you from
one minute to the next." | |
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Mignon McLaughlin
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| "The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your
courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image
of yourself." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the
entire moral courage of the human mind." | |
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John Stuart Mill
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| "The secret of Happiness is Freedom, And the secret of Freedom,
Courage." | |
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Thucydides
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| "The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of
courage comes when we are in a minority." | |
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Ralph W. Sockman, D.D.
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| "There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his
character, his self-respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a
king." | |
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Orison Swett Marden
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| "There is a certain blend of courage, integrity, character and
principle which has no satisfactory dictionary name but has been called
different things at different times in different countries. Our American
name for it is "guts."" | |
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Louis Adamic
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| "There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how
to bear unhappiness with courage." | |
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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| "To bear other people"s afflictions, everyone has courage and enough
to spare." | |
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Benjamin Franklin
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| "To know what is right and not to do it is the worst
cowardice." | |
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Kung Fu-tzu Confucius
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| "To live is not to die, to die is to not have lived." | |
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Alix Pasterick
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| "Tony is one of the most courageous people I"ve ever met. Describing
his student, Tony Brown, wrestling competitively at 105 lbs, a year after
having both legs amputated following an accident." | |
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Steve Komac
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| "True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it
higher." | |
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John Petit-Senn
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| "Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his
courage." | |
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Jean Anouilh
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| "What a new face courage puts on everything!" | |
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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| "Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage." | |
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Samuel Johnson
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| "Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor
to dare to live." | |
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Sir Thomas Browne
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| "Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world
without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to
honor." | |
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James Lane Allen
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| "You take a number of small steps which you believe are right,
thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous
provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another
step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps." | |
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George Konrad
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| "You will never be able to discover new oceans unless you have the
courage to lose sight of the shore." | |
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Hannah Whitall Smith
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| "You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the
greatest quality of the mind next to honor." | |
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James L. Allen
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