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"Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost. Life would split asunder without them. 'Come to tea, come to dinner, what's the truth of the story? have you heard the news? life in the capital is wonderful; the Russian dancers....' These are our stays and props. These lace our days together and make of life a perfect globe."
"Cold, hungry, scared as hell inside, but too damn brave to admit it."
"Brave, bold people, these are what we want."
"Tomorrow you'll be brave, you say? Fool! Dive today."
"Vanity, shame, and above all disposition, often make men brave and women chaste."
"There never could be a man so brave that he would not sometime, or in the end, turn part or all coward; or so wise that he was not, from beginning to end, part ass if you knew where to look; or so good that nothing at all about him was despicable."
"Brave men die a single death; cowards marry fish-head mermaids!"
"Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs."
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage."
"The Jaguar's Children is a beautifully rendered lament for an imperiled culture and the brave lives that would preserve it. You should read it."
"The brave are always stubborn"
"If you care deeply about a cause and you are then engaged on behalf of that cause in an activity that makes you feel very good and very brave and you're really in solidarity with all your friends, and you're enjoying it, you're probably not advancing the cause very much, because you're spending all your time with people you agree with cheering each other on and not engaging."
"I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war."
"Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude."
"Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, Brave men would act though scandal would ensue."
"[Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)"
"The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all."
"In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority."
"Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe."
"Here, in the dread tribunal of last resort, valor contended against valor. Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right."
