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Robert Louis Stevenson Author, Poet
Brave

"Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavours. If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temparate in wrath, and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another."

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Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist
Brave

"I believe that courage is morally neutral. I can well imagine wicked people being brave and good people being timid or afraid. I don't consider it a moral virtue."

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Laozi Philosopher
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"A brave and passionate man will kill or be killed. A brave and calm man will always preserve life. Of these two which is good and which is harmful?"

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Neil Gaiman Author
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"Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare."

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Homer Poet
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"Even when someone battles hard, there is an equal portion for one who lingers behind, and in the same honor are held both the coward and the brave man; the idle man and he who has done much meet death alike."

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Dorothy Parker Poet, Writer, Critic
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"I know that an author must be brave enough to chop away clinging tentacles of good taste for the sake of a great work. But this is no great work, you see."

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Cheryl Strayed Author, Memoirist
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"So release yourself from that. Don't be strategic or coy. Strategic and coy are for jackasses. Be brave. Be authentic. Practice saying the word 'love' to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will."

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Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
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"In youth, we clothe ourselves with rainbows, with hope & love, & go as brave as the zodiack. In age we put out another sort of perspiration; gout, fever, rheumatism, caprice, doubt, fretting, and avarice."

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