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• A coward is the kindest animal;
  'Tis the most forgiving creature in a fight.

  John Dryden

  Fighting, Animal, Forgiving

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• Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just contempt of an enemy can alone arise in those who feel that they are superior to their opponent by the prudence of their measures.

  Thucydides

  Successful, Enemy, Lucky

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• There never was found a man who had courage to acknowledge himself a coward.

  Joseph R. Bartlett

  Men, Found, Acknowledge

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• I've rarely gotten a good review in my life, yet, to paraphrase Noel Coward, I am happy to console myself with the bitter palliative of commercial success.

  Steven Weber

  Noel, Bitter, Reviews

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

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• We were cowards when we sacked him.

  John Lennon

  Music, Music Is

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• All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at the grandeur of the Creators power; and I gazed motionless on this new display of the irresistible force of one of His elements.

  John James Audubon

  Fall, Illusions Of Grandeur, Blood

  John James Audubon (1868). “The Life and Adventures of J. J. Audubon ... Edited, from Materials Supplied by His Widow, by Robert Buchanan. Second Edition. [With Portraits.]”, p.91

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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.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Real, Finals, Admitting

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• Advertising is a conscienceless industry, populated by cowards and idiots, that warps and drains everyone. It eggs on the worst in all of us. If I could eliminate either advertising or nuclear weapons, I would choose advertising.

  George Meyer

  Eggs, Weapons, Nuclear

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• Every Tory is a coward; for servile, slavish, self-interested fear is the foundation of Toryism; and a man under such influence, though he may be cruel, never can be brave.

  Thomas Paine

  Men, Self, Brave

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.14

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• Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Done, Action, Kind

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• none can be Tyrants but Cowards.

  Mary Astell

  Tyrants, Tyranny

  Mary Astell (2002). “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies”, p.247, Broadview Press

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• It is the hero alone, not the coward, who has liberation within his easy reach.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hero, Easy, Liberation

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.166, Vivekananda Kendra

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• Only the following items should be considered to be grave faults: not respecting another's rights; allowing oneself to be paralyzed by fear; feeling guilty; believing that one does not deserve the good or ill that happens in one's life; being a coward. We will love our enemies, but not make alliances with them. They were placed in our path in order to test our sword, and we should, out of respect for them, struggle against them. We will choose our enemies.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Struggle, Rights

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• He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.

  Neil Gaiman

  Running, Events, Leap

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Neverwhere: A Novel”, p.13, Harper Collins

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• I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Matter, Flaws

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• Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Wise, Men, Fool

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.277, Penguin

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• Taro taught me that people respect spirit, but even cowards don't respect cowards.

  David Mitchell

  People, Taught, Spirit

  David Mitchell (2007). “Ghostwritten”, p.44, Vintage

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• Sir, I am not a brave man...The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. I have never been within the sound of gunshot or in sight of battle in my whole life that I wasn't so scared that I had sweat in the palms of my hands.

  George S. Patton

  Courage, Men, Sight

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• The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Courage, Victory And Defeat, Suffering

  "The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson".

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• Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions."

  Coventry Patmore

  Strength, Believe, Men

  Coventry Patmore (2016). “The Rod, the Root and the Flower”, p.19, Lulu.com

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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.

  Aaron Hill

  Strength, Hero, Trials

  Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.15

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• To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

  Aristotle

  Sad, Suicide, Pain

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• It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Loses, Conscience

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• There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Courage, Earth, Dare

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “Dusk of Dawn (The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois)”, p.62, Oxford University Press

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• Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Courage, Morning, Betrayal

  Cormac McCarthy (1992). “All the Pretty Horses”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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