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• My wife and I were present at this congress. Sabina told me, "Richard, stand up and wash away this shame from the face of Christ! They are spitting in His face." I said to her, "If I do so, you lose your husband." She replied, "I don't wish to have a coward as a husband.

  Richard Wurmbrand

  Husband, Wife, Wish

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• Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk about the purity of race.

  Umberto Eco

  Race, Principles, Flags

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• ONE MORE CHNCE. Words that my mother heard, more than once. Words that women debate. Whether you CAN forgive and whether you SHOULD trust. I think of all the judgment from society, friends, and family, the overwhelming consensus seeming to be that you should not grant someone who betrayed you a second chance. That you should do everything you can to keep the knife out of your back, and to protect your heart and pride. Cowards give second chances. Fools give second chances. And I am no coward, no fool.

  Emily Giffin

  Mother, Heart, Pride

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• By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

  David Gemmell

  Heroism, Definitions, Highest

  David Gemmell (2011). “Legend”, p.33, Hachette UK

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• Every decent man of our age must be a coward and a slave. That is his normal condition. Of that I am firmly persuaded. He is made and constructed to that very end. And not only at the present time owing to some casual circumstance, but always, at all times, a decent man is bound to be a coward and a slave.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Age, Owing

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• They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.

  Neal Shusterman

  Real, Hero, Heart

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Full Tilt”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• What? You run? Coward! Stand still and die!” Percy had no intention of doing that.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, Intention, Percy Jackson And The Olympians

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• I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only moderately moved. I almost never cry. It's not that I'm stronger than the ones with teary eyes, I'm weaker. They have courage. When all you are is skin and bones, feelings are a brave thing. I'm more of a coward. The difference is minimal though, I just use my strength not to cry. When I do allow myself a feeling, I take the part that hurts and bandage it up with a story that doesn't cry, that doesn't dwell on homesickness.

  Herta Muller

  Hurt, Eye, Differences

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• When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours; and although we may be delicate and soft, some men who are delicate are also strong; and others, coarse and harsh, are cowards. Women have not yet realized this, for if they should decide to do so, they would be able to fight you until death; and to prove that I speak the truth, amongst so many women, I will be the first to act, setting an example for them to follow. —Veronica Franco 1546-1591

  Veronica Franco

  Strong, Heart, Fighting

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• Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?’ I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. ‘What irony?’ I ask eventually, the words tumbling out in a hurried heap. ‘That I am to be shot as a coward while you get to live as one.

  John Boyne

  Tumbling, Irony, Determined

  John Boyne (2011). “The Absolutist”, p.285, Random House

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• The words burned on her tongue, but Minerva couldn’t give them voice. What a hopeless coward she was. She could pound on his door at midnight and demand to be respected as an individual. She could travel across the country in hopes of being appreciated for her scholarly achievements. But she still lacked the courage to ask for the one thing she wanted most. To be loved, just for herself.

  Tessa Dare

  Country, Doors, Voice

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• So you were going to rescue the Prince! Why did you pretend to run away? To deceive the Witch?" "Not likely! I'm a coward. Only way I can do something this frightening is to tell myself I'm not doing it!

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Running, Way, Witch

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• I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing.

  Plutarch

  World, Dare, Ill

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.65

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• If you don't make a few ememies now and then, you're a coward-or worse. Besides, it as worth it to see his reaction. Oh, he was angry! - Angela to Eragon

  Christopher Paolini

  Eragon, Now And Then, Reactions

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• I was a coward. I went to the war.

  Tim O'Brien

  War, Rainy, Cowardice

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Cowards never lasted long enough to become real cowboys.

  Charles Goodnight

  Real, Cowboy, Long

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• I am willing to remain and play the man's game if there are not enough boats for more than the women and children. Tell my wife I played the game straight out and to the end. No woman shall be left aboard this ship because Ben Guggenheim is a coward.

  Benjamin Guggenheim

  Children, Men, Games

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• The spooks are all cowards. Sunlight is the solution to these things.

  William Binney

  Sunlight, Solutions

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• Only cowards push a button from thousands of miles away, or tens of thousands of feet up, to kill people who can't possibly fight back.

  Bill Maher

  Fighting, Feet, People

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• If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear.

  Margaret Deland

  Fear, Liars, Names

  Margaret Deland (2010). “Around Old Chester”, p.77, Wildside Press LLC

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• Woodrow Wilson was the president of the United States in 1920, and he was made a fool of - his wife almost divorced him - because he wouldn't support women's suffrage. He was president during World War I, but I look back upon him as a coward. Because he knew the right thing to do - the right of women to vote was an idea whose time had come a long time before then, when a lot of women were put into prison or persecuted because they fought for it.

  Wayne Dyer

  War, Long, Wife

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• It is true fortitude to stand firm against
  All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die
  In fear to suffer more calamity.

  Philip Massinger

  Fate, Suffering, Fortitude

  Philip Massinger, William Gifford, John Ferriar (1813). “The Plays of Philip Massinger: The bandman. The renegado. The parliament of love. The Roman actor. The great Duke of Florence”, p.375

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• What coward would not fight when he is sure of victory?

  Richard Sibbes

  Fighting, Victory

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.121, Titus Books

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• Any man that hits a woman is not a real man, he's a coward. With my wife Jodi, I think it's my job to protect her and stop anything bad happening in her life. Abusing your partner is the opposite of that. I want her to wake up and feel safe.

  Kian Egan

  Jobs, Real, Men

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• I sat there afraid that I might discover that the world around me is not real. then i thought: wait. i need fear that only if its true, and if it is, i must consider that while this may be bad, worse than that is living in a world that is only real because i am a coward.

  Philip K. Jason

  Fear, Real, Waiting

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