"Nonviolence is the summit of bravery."
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"Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die."
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"It requires a certain kind of bravery, I suppose, to choose the status quo. There's a certain boldness to inaction."
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"Bravery is not strength in the face of a far lesser foe. Bravery is the exact opposite of that."
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"Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger."
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"Question the bravery. Say it's not courage. Call it a passion."
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"It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances."
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"Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood."
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"Love of glory, fear of shame, greed for fortune, the desire to make life agreeable and comfortable, and the wish to depreciate others - all of these are often the causes of the bravery that is spoken so highly of by men."
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"We are much mistaken if we think that men are always brave from a principle of valor, or women chaste from a principle of modesty."
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"Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness."
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"We have need to be as sturdy pioneers still as Miles Standish, or Church, or Lovewell. We are to follow on another trail, it is true, but one as convenient for ambushes. What if the Indians are exterminated, are not savages as grim prowling about the clearings today?"
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"I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had him wait till that time came?--till you and I came over to him?"
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"Commonly men will only be brave as their fathers were brave, or timid."
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"The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery."
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"The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion."
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"Then to side with Truth is noble when we share her wretched crust, Ere her cause bring fame and profit, and 't is prosperous to be just; Then it is the brave man chooses, while the coward stands aside, Doubting in his abject spirit, till his Lord is crucified."
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"The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life."
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"I think we must cling to the hope that we can see in the great heroism, the bravery of the firemen and policemen, and the outpouring of caring and concern that has come pouring in from around the world."
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"I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid."
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