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• There's other ways to protect yourself and your family, Arlen. Wisdom. Prudence. Humility. It's not brave to fight a battle you can't win.

  Peter V. Brett

  Humility, Fighting, Winning

  Peter V. Brett (2009). “The Warded Man: Book One of The Demon Cycle”, p.28, Del Rey

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• One cannot be honest even at the end of one's life, for no one is wholly alone. We are bound to those we love, or to those who love us, and to those who need us to be brave, or content, or even happy enough to allow them not to worry about us. So we must refrain from giving pain, as our last gift to our fellows.

  Florida Scott-Maxwell

  Pain, Worry, Giving

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• But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?

  Susan Glaspell

  Desert, Gone, Quitting

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• Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.

  Edna Buchanan

  Love Is, People, Risk

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• A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.

  George Henry Lewes

  Sympathy, Men, Desire

  "The Spanish Drama". Book by George Henry Lewes. Chapter 2, 1846.

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• Brave men do not boast nor bluster. Deeds, not words, speak for such.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Men, Bravery, Deeds

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• A brave man's country is wherever he chooses his abode.
  [Lat., Patria est ubicumque vir fortis sedem elegerit.]

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Country, Men, Patriotism

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• The Seconds that tick as the clock moves along
  Are Privates who march with a spirit so strong.
  The Minutes are Captains. The Hours of the day
  Are Officers brave, who lead on to the fray.
  So, remember, when tempted to loiter and dream
  You've an army at hand; your command is supreme;
  And question yourself, as it goes on review--
  Had it helped in the fight with the best it could do?

  Philander Chase Johnson

  Dream, Strong, Moving

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• Any essayist setting out on a frail apparatus of notings and jottings is a brave person.

  Diane Johnson

  Brave Person, Frail, Persons

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• I have read of women who have been strongly, grandly brave. Sometimes I have dreamed that I might be brave. The possibilities of this life are magnificent.

  Mary MacLane

  Might, Sometimes, Possibility

  Mary MacLane (2014). “I Await the Devil's Coming: Annotated & Unexpurgated”, p.82, Petrarca Press

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• Brave spirits are a balsam to themselves,
  There is a nobleness of mind that heals
  Wounds beyond salves.

  William Cartwright

  Courage, Mind, Spirit

  William Cartwright, Gwynne Blakemore Evans (1951). “Plays and Poems”

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• a lot of people have been telling me how brave I am. I've always thought it was a mistake to get a reputation for courage, on the grounds that if you acted bravely once, people would expect you to act courageously again, and you might be having an off day.

  Starhawk

  Courage, Mistake, People

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• A warrior so bold, and a virgin so bright,
  Conversed as they sat on the green.
  They gazed on each other with tender delight,
  Alonzo the Brave was the name of the knight--
  The maiden's the Fair Imogene.

  Matthew Gregory Lewis

  Love, Warrior, Names

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• The spirit of sarcasm lives and thrives in the midst of universal wreck; its balls are enchanted and itself invulnerable, and it braves retaliations and reprisals because itself is a mere flash, a bodiless and magical nothing.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Sarcasm, Balls, Wrecks

  Entry for February 16, 1868, "The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel", Book by Henri-Frédéric Amiel, translated by Mary Augusta Ward, 1882.

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• Mr. Lincoln was generous by nature, and though his whole heart was in the war, he could not but respect the valor of those opposed to him. His soul was too great for the narrow, selfish views of partisanship. Brave by nature himself, he honored bravery in others, even his foes.

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Selfish, War, Heart

  Elizabeth Keckley (2016). “Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House”, p.60, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• My mind was clear and penetrating at the time, for it was midnight, the hour at which I am most brave and most free.

  Vera Caspary

  Night, Mind, Hours

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• To be afraid and to be brave is the best kind of courage of all.

  Alice Dalgliesh

  Courage, Kind, Be Brave

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• To navigate, you must be brave and you must remember.

  Mau Piailug

  Remember, Be Brave, Navigate

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• Smart people think. Brave people talk. Great people act.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Smart, Thinking, People

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• I'm asking you not to be color blind, but to be color brave.

  Mellody Hobson

  Color, Asking, Blind

  "Color blind or color brave?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. March 2014.

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• It took me a long time to be as brave in my personal life as I was in my professional life to be brave in love means opening yourself up to the possibility of heartbreak.

  Mellody Hobson

  Mean, Long, Possibility

  "DreamWorks Chairwoman Mellody Hobson Calls for Tolerance, Talks "Soul Mate" George Lucas in USC Speech" by Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 15, 2015.

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• I can feel very brave through all the action scenes in front of the people who are on the set, but when a girl comes close to me my face turns red because I'm so shy.

  Jet Li

  Girl, People, Shy

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Some people say I was very brave, but I really just didn't know any better. All I had was my originality.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  People, Originality, Knows

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It's hard to plan and plot attacks against America if you're on the run, and that's exactly what our brave professionals are doing.

  George W. Bush

  Running, America, Plot

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. October 31, 2006.

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• Some brave chrysanthemums still stood in the country gardens, but they looked like bedraggled survivors of a battle, barely able to hold their tattered banners upright. October was at the gates and autumn was in full retreat.

  Patricia Moyes

  Country, Autumn, Garden

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