"You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward."
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"We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards."
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"God will not make himself manifest to cowards"
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"Spurious prudence, making the senses final, is the god of sots and cowards, and is the subject of all comedy. It is nature's joke, and therefore literature's. True prudence limits this sensualism by admitting the knowledge of an internal and real world."
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"Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death."
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"I am a coward, basically, but one of the things about acting is that you are always putting yourself through yet another test."
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"Because no man wants to be a coward in front of a cheese."
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"He was, he would be the first to admit, a coward, an incompetent, and not even very good at being a failure."
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"I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you."
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"The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards."
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"He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world."
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"Pain is a coward. He flees when faced by the irresistible power of the will-to-live, which is more strongly rooted in the flesh than the intensest passion is rooted in the spirit."
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"We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others."
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"Do not run away, it is cowardice."
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"You gain nothing by becoming cowards."
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"To cowards what advice shall I offer? - nothing whatsoever have I to say."
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"The coward is an object to be pitied."
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"May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!"
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"Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation."
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"Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero."
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