"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
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"A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard."
"Tea, although an OrientalIs a gentleman at least;Cocoa is a cad and coward,Cocoa is a vulgar beast."
"I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing."
"No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward"
"I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life in hamlets; and for ever abandon his faculties to the eating rust of obscurity?"
"I'm not brave enough to be a coward; I see the consequences too clearly."
"O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!"
"One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly."
"Now ain nobody tell us it would be fair no love for my father cause the coward wasn't their" {Tu Pac Shukur}"
"We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on."
"Men are cowards when it comes to the "eternally feminine": and the little women know it."
"Victories and defeats form part of everyone's life - everyone, that is, except cowards, as you call them, because they never lose or win."
"Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once."
"There are enough cowards in the world without killing a brave creature for so little reason."
"How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?"
"A coward with a gun is the most dangerous person in the world"
"I did not get to where I am in life by being weak and allowing others, who are weak, try and 'break' me. These men are in fact powerless cowards hiding behind an honorable badge and I will not stop until justice has been served."
"No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself. . ."
"This world is not for cowards."