"Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark."
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"And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say they'll leave him to the ghosts. But I always wondered if they didn't really drown 'em or cut their throats. I never quite believed in the ghosts. But those two cowards you've just shot believed all right. They were more scared of taking me to my death than I was of going."
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"Because when everyone dreams, but only a few realize their dreams, that makes cowards of us all."
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"I made some mistakes, but I wasn’t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do."
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"It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper."
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"There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood."
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"You do need an outlet to release all of those fears. You build it up and then, when you go to a movie theater, it's the last place that it's socially acceptable to be terrified. It's saying that, for the next 90 minutes, you're allowed to be afraid and you're not a coward for feeling that way."
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"The brave endure their labors, the cowardly are worth the cowards nothing at all."
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"You cannot be brave if you do not have a coward inside you."
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"A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away."
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"This week a group of activists, known as Anonymous, hacked the Twitter account of the KKK. The KKK is furious. They said Anonymous is just a bunch of cowards who don't have the courage to show their faces."
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"Zuniga Hides the Evidence ... Like the craven coward he is, Markos Zuniga, rising young star of the Democrats, has now removed the page at Daily Kos where he wrote "Screw them" about the four Americans torn apart and hung from a bridge in Fallujah."
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"the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him."
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"I was a bit of a coward when I was small. I was terribly frightened of the dark."
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"Now must we sing and sing the best we can, But first you must be told your character: Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain."
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"I was a coward on instinct."
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"Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct."
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"O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch! Wilt thou be made a man out of my vice?"
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"Cowards die many times; a brave man dies but once."
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"Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them."
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