"They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine."
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"The really heroic thing about Nick Hornby is that he lives in north London and rarely leaves it... Every English writer needs their corner that is forever England - but only a few brave men choose to make that corner Highbury."
"It is easier to brave and threaten, than to conquer an enemy."
"It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave."
"The man or the woman who can display the nonviolence of the brave can easily stand against as external invasion."
"If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed."
"Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard."
"Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly."
"Non-violence should never be used as a shield for cowardice. It is a weapon for the brave."
"True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us."
"Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and superstitions, and to trust one another. This requires faith in oneself."
"Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave."
"You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence."
"By compassion one can be brave."
"To be brave without compassion, generous without moderation, and rule without refraining from being first in the world, are certain deaths."
"When you're grieving that's not the time to be brave or strong, you need to let it show"
"Ah me! how easy it is (how much all have experienced it) to indulge in brave words in another person's trouble. [Lat., Hei mihi, quam facile est (quamvis hic contigit omnes), Alterius lucta fortia verba loqui!]"
"You're brave. You are the bravest person I know, and you are my friend. I don't care if you are imaginary."
"The people with the most fear have the greatest opportunity to be brave."
"It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste."