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• Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive. The sternest-seeming stoic is human after all, and to burst with boldness and good-will into the silent sea of their souls is often to confer on them the first of obligations.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Grief, Sea, People

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.303, Penguin

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• Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a strong distortion of the objects, with a crude handling of matter. Moments altogether new, never seen before compositions whose boldness outstrips the imagination of painters Then the creation of those instants which do not exist, contrived by means of photomontage. The negative transmits altogether new stimuli to the sentient mind and eye.

  Alexander Rodchenko

  Strong, Eye, Mean

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• Be bold, but not too bold. Have courage, but not too much.

  Fay Weldon

  Too Much, Have Courage

  Fay Weldon (1976). “Remember me”, Random House (NY)

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• He found himself weeping. Not for the future or for the emperor. These were the tears of a man who saw before himself a masterpiece. True art was more than beauty; it was more than technique. It was not just imitation. It was boldness, it was contrast, it was subtlety.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Art, Men, Tears

  Brandon Sanderson (2016). “Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection”, p.119, Macmillan

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• Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Character, Gun, Games

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• For me accessories create and define a woman's personal style. The bag she carries, the watch on her wrist, her jewelry, her sunglasses, her shoes all define a look that is her signature. For Spring 2014, my accessory collections are about a clean, graphic boldness creating a new dimension redefining modern classics.

  Ralph Lauren

  Spring, Shoes, Creating

  FaceBook post by Ralph Lauren from Sep 14, 2013

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• No matter how much you're going to be criticized or no matter how big of a risk it is, the boldness is the thing that helps you

  Nicole Kidman

  Risk, Matter, Helping

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Jan 27, 2017

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• Prometheus heretofore went up to Heaven, and stole fire from thence. Have not I as much Boldness as he?

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Fire, Heaven, Prometheus

  Cyrano de Bergerac (2015). “A Voyage to the Moon: Souls Needed for You”, p.12, 谷月社

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• Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking, brings us close to the actually existing world and its wholeness.

  Gary Snyder

  Gratitude, Play, Simplicity

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.25, Counterpoint Press

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• I think the thing about Anne Boleyn is there is an exotic quality to her. This is a woman who wasn’t raised in the English court. She was in the French court and Hapsburg court. She has a continental exotic quality to her. She’s quite a fiery woman and incredibly intelligent. So I think Anne really stood out – fire and intelligence and boldness – in comparison to the English roses that were flopping around court, she would’ve stood out. And Henry noticed that.

  Natalie Dormer

  Thinking, Intelligent, Fire

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• Marveling at his own boldness, he said softly, "I would enter your sleep if I could, and guard you there, and slay the thing that hounds you, as I would if it had the courage to face me in fair daylight. But I cannot come in unless you dream of me.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, Sleep, Daylight

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• But the forces of evil have not abdicated. The malevolent ghosts of hatred are resurgent with a fury and a boldness that are as astounding as they are nauseating: ethnic conflicts, religious riots, anti-Semitic incidents here, there, and everywhere. What is wrong with these morally degenerate people that they abuse their freedom, so recently won?

  Elie Wiesel

  Religious, People, Evil

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.140, Schocken

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• Unlike some men, I had never drunk for boldness or charm or wit; I had used alcohol for precisely what it was, a depressant to check the mental exhilaration produced by extended sobriety.

  Frederick Exley

  Men, Drunk, Sobriety

  Frederick Exley (1997). “A Fan's Notes”

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• The Christian in prayer comes up close to God, with a humble boldness of faith, and takes hold of him, wrestles with him; yea, will not let him go without a blessing... They are only a few noble-spirited souls, who dare take heaven by force, that are fit for this calling.

  William Gurnall

  Christian, Prayer, Humble

  William Gurnall (1862). “The Christian in Complete Armour: Or, A Treatise on the Saints' War with the Devil ...”, p.3

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• Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Adventure

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• He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own conviction, and guards others from delusion; but steadiness of belief, and boldness of profession, are yet only part of the form of godliness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Fearless, Good Man

  Samuel Johnson (1812). “Sermons Attributed to Samuel Johnson: And Left for Publication by John Taylor”, p.209

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• Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit and spoke the Word with boldness. Even when threatened with punishment, he said that he could not help but share the things he had seen and heard.

  David Jeremiah

  Punishment, Spirit, Helping

  David Jeremiah (2011). “Signs of Life: Back to the Basics of Authentic Christianity”, p.61, Thomas Nelson

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• The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of the world with whom life is a series of struggles, is not to give way to any morbid sentimentality when duty demands sternness and the boldness to face terrible things.

  Bal Gangadhar Tilak

  Struggle, Teaching, Men

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• Question with boldness, hold to the truth, and speak without fear.

  Glenn Beck

  Speak

  David Barton, Glenn Beck (2012). “The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You've Always Believed about Thomas Jefferson”, p.8, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Writing objects to the lie that life is small. Writing is a cell of energy. Writing defines itself. Writing draws its viewer in for longer than an instant. Writing exhibits boldness. Writing restores power to exalt, unnerve, shock, and transform us. Writing does not imitate life, it anticipates life.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Lying, Writing, Cells

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• Errors and exaggerations do not matter. What matters is boldness in thinking with a strong-pitched voice, in speaking out about things as one feels them in the moment of speaking; in having the temerity to proclaim what one believes to be true without fear of the consequences. If one were to await the possession of the absolute truth, one must be either a fool or a mute. If the creative impulse were muted, the world would then be stayed on its march.

  Jose Clemente Orozco

  Strong, Fear, Truth

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• Try to begin things you feel you can do. To begin is enough-there is a boldness in beginning. And in boldness lies genius and magic.

  Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet

  Lying, Writing, Magic

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• He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward monitor obeys. And with the boldness that confuses fear Takes in the crowded sail, and lets his conscience steer.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Fear, Wind, Giving

  John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Grave By The Lake”

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• The wilderness that has come to us out of the eternity of the past, we have the boldness to project into the eternity of the future.

  Howard Zahniser

  Past, Wilderness, Eternity

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• If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Heart, Procrastination

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