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• Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Fear of Flying". Book by Erica Jong, 1973.

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• I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

  Ira Hayes

  Hero, Men, Bravery

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• They were doing a full back shot of me in a swimsuit and I thought, Oh my God, I have to be so brave. See, every woman hates herself from behind.

  Cindy Crawford

  Hate, Swimsuits, Doing Me

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• O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!

  William Shakespeare

  Brave New World, People, Wonder

  'The Tempest' (1611) act 5, sc. 1, l. 182

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• Be brave if you lose and meek if you win.

  Harvey Penick

  Golf, Winning, Bravery

  Harvey Penick (2011). “And If You Play Golf, You're My Friend: Furthur Reflections of a Grown Caddie”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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• True courage is the result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

  Jeremy Collier

  Uplifting, Courage, Mind

  "Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects".

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• I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.

  Philip Green

  Intelligent, Views, Bravery

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• It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

  Sallust

  Law, Bravery, Victory

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• To play a bag woman is brave for any woman.

  Daphne Zuniga

  Play, Bravery, Bags

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• Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Courage, Desperate, Aggravated

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• Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.

  John Gay

  Love, Bravery, Coward

  John Gay, Nathaniel Cotton, Edward Moore (1826). “Gay's Fables and other poems: Cotton's visions in verse ; Moore's Fables for the female sex ; with sketches of the authors' lives”, p.20

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• It's a brave new world.

  Howard Kurtz

  Brave New World, Bravery, World

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• Brave men are brave from the very first.

  Pierre Corneille

  Men, Bravery, Firsts

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Le Cid, II. 3, 1922.

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• Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.

  Grace Jones

  Bravery, Enough, Carriages

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• It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

  Georges Bernanos

  Fear, Men, Bravery

  Georges Bernanos (1962). “The Diary of a Country Priest”

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• Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.

  Walter Knott

  Home, Land, Bravery

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• Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause.

  Matthew Simpson

  Country, Men, Bravery

  Matthew Simpson (1885). “Sermons”

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• Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.

  Oscar Hammerstein II

  Stars, Young Love, Bravery

  Song: Hello, Young Lovers

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• I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Happiness, Laughter, Humor

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

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• Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?

  Arthur Hugh Clough

  Fighting, Bravery, Soul

  'Amours de Voyage' (1858) canto 5, pt. 6

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• That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Courage, Thoughtful, Men

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.2136, Delphi Classics

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• A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

  Philip Sidney

  Courage, Knights, Bravery

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.72

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• Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Philosophical, Doctors, Years

  'Virginibus Puerisque' (1881) 'Aes Triplex'

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• Our brave men and women are fighting around the world and they deserve relief.

  Ellen Tauscher

  Fighting, Men, Bravery

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• The brave deserve the lovely - every woman may be won.

  Charles Godfrey Leland

  Bravery, Lovely, May

  Charles Godfrey Leland (2015). “Songs of the Sea and Lays of the Land”, p.142, Library of Alexandria

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