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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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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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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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'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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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 Mιmorial de Sainte-Hιlθne, vol. 1, pt. 2, E.A. de Las Casas (1823).
Said by Napoleon at the end of December 1815.)
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... fiction never exceeds the reach of the writer's courage.
(Dorothy Allison (b. 1949), U.S. author and lesbian feminist. Skin, ch. 22 (1994).
Allison wrote novels and short stories, as well as poetry and essays.)
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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.
(Franηois, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. Sentences et Maximes Morales, no. 216 (1678).)
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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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