"Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice."

Courage, Virtue, Respect, Behavior

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"Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected even when it is associated with vice."

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"We can overcome the uncertainties in life with courage and hope."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Courage, Overcome, Uncertainties, Life

"It's too risky", said doubters. "It's too difficult", said scoffers. "It's pointless", said mockers. "It's impossible", said haters. "It's already done", said believers."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Courage, Risk, Belief, Skeptics, Determination

"When people do the cowardly thing, it's not about respect, it's about fear."

Salman Rushdie, Indian Novelist

Courage, Fear, Respect, Human, Emotion

"Fear is not respect. It is but a conniving, little weasel next to that mighty lion. They are a far, far cry from the same animal."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Courage, Fear, Truth, Power, Inspirational

"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Courage, Death, Fear

"When you break rules, break 'em good and hard."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Courage, Rebellion, Rules, Change, Power

"A mighty storm is inconsequential when facing a mighty ship."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Courage, Storm, Ship, Mighty, Strength

"A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

Courage, Action, Danger, Fear, Fortitude

"Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Courage, Bravery, Doubt, Strength

"We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life and art with wonder."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

Courage, Fear, Wonder, Truth

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"Marriage has many pains but celibacy has no pleasures."

Relationship

"The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected."

Faith

"That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner."

Mortality

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

Man

"The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity."

Literature

"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."

Travel

"Sir a woman preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well: but you are surprised to find it done at all."

Society

"It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness."

Emotion

"For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."

Humor

"It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see."

Beauty