"Slander is the revenge of a coward, and dissimulation of his defense."
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"It was the cowards who died many times before their death."
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"Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin."
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"Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral."
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"Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency."
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"This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it."
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"A coward dies a thousand times, a soldier dies but once."
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"Cowards can never be moral."
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"The man who has a certain religious belief and fears to discuss it, lest it may be proved wrong, is not loyal to his belief, he has but a coward's faithfulness to his prejudices. If he were a lover of truth, he would be willing at any moment to surrender his belief for a higher, better, and truer faith."
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"It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape."
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"All men would be cowards if they only had the courage."
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"You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live."
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"I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is no salvation for a coward even after millions of years of penance."
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"Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions."
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"Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward."
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"Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards."
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"A coward's courage is in his tongue."
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"Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film."
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"Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe"
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"You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him."
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