"To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man."

Morality, Courage, Fear, Bravery, Character

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"To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man."

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"One is God himself, [but] for how long does that authority of God last? As long as he speaks the truth, practices non-violence, does not steal, practices celibacy and remains non-acquisitive " till then power of God will remain."

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"Every animal is biologically designed by Nature to do wrong in return. It takes a human being to not do wrong in return."

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"So what if you're right? So what if you're wrong? In the end you might be surprised to find that God doesn't care so much about whether you were right or wrong but whether, despite it all, you were kind or cruel."

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"Fear is the devil's most powerful tool because he can't always convince a good man to do wrong, but he can paralyze his will with fright, keeping a good man from doing what is right. It eventually results in the same end."

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"Once the ego is born into this world, it has to shoulder morality."

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"No baggage - there was the secret of existence."

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"It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser."

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"Death, like a host, comes smiling to the door;Smiling, he greets us, on that tranquil shoreWhere neither piping bird nor peeping dawnDisturbs the eternal sleep,But in the stillness far withdrawnOur dreamless rest for evermore we keep."

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"I believe you to be strictly honorable.'He thoughtfully emptied his cup. 'I wish I could add you were intelligent,' he went on, knocking on his head with his knuckles."

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"For marriage is like life in this-that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses."

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"I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy fitting what I saw with appropriate words; when I sat by the roadside, I would either read or a pencil and a penny version-book would be in my hand, to note the features of the scene or commemorate some halting stanzas. Thus I lived with words."

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"For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself."

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"Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come that we may be brave in peril constant in tribulation temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death loyal and loving one to anther."

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"Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends?"

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"The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;She shines on thieves on the garden wall,On streets and fields and harbour quays,And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees."

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