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Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

Tender-handed stroke a nettle, and it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, and it soft as silk remains.

That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.

The best protection any woman can have ... is courage.

The best way out of a problem is through it.

The brave man is not he who feels no fear, for that were stupid and irrational; but he whose noble soul subdues its fear, and bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

The brave venture anything.

The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring.

The burden is equal to the horse's strength.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment, but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy. A man does what he must- in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures-and that is the basis of all morality.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

The coward despairs.

The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near them, the fly lights upon his very nose.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time.

The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.


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