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• The hero and the coward both feel exactly the same fear, only the hero confronts his fear and converts it into fire.

  Cus D'Amato

  Hero, Fire, Preparation

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• Men are cowards before women until they become tyrants.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Tyrants

  Anthony Trollope (1864). “The Small House at Allington”, p.138

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• Unethical conduct is actually the conduct of destruction and fear; lies are told because one is afraid of the consequences should one tell the truth; thus, the liar is inevitably a coward, the coward is inevitably a liar.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Lying, Liars, Telling The Truth

  "Science of Survival". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, 1951.

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• I need not add that freedom is a dangerous thing. But it is hardly possible that we are all cowards.

  Jack Parsons

  Add, Needs, Dangerous

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• Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.

  George Herbert

  Lying, Heart, Men

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• It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back... Watch out against the terrorism of gossip!

  Pope Francis

  Gossip, Watches, Disease

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• The sot drinks, and is drunken: the coward drinks not, and shivers: the wise man, brave and free, drinks, and gives glory to the Most High God.

  Aleister Crowley

  Wise, Men, Giving

  Aleister Crowley “The Equinox Vol. 3. No. 1.”, Lulu.com

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• The coward’s fear of death stems in large part from his incapacity to love anything but his own body. The inability to participate in others’ lives stands in the way of his developing any inner resources sufficient to overcome the terror of death. — J. Glenn Gary, The Warriors

  Sebastian Junger

  Warrior, Overcoming, Inability

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• Thou art a cat, and a rat, and a coward.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Art, Cat, Rats

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1706). “The History of the Most Ingenious Knight Don Quixote de la Mancha,1”, p.150

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• I Was An NFL Player Until I was Fired By Two Cowards and a Bigot.

  Chris Kluwe

  Player, Nfl, Two

  "https://deadspin.com/i-was-an-nfl-player-until-i-was-fired-by-two-cowards-an-1493208214". deadspin.com. January 02, 2014.

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• Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it

  Mark Lawrence

  Use

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.47, Penguin

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• Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Mind, Suffering

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.4554, Manonmani Publishers

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• Cowardice is no virtue.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Virtue, Cowardice

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2044, Manonmani Publishers

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• Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ignorance, Fighting, Winning

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.79, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• Women are the cowards they are because they have been semi-slaves for so long. The number of women prepared to stand up for what they really think, feel, experience, with a man they are in love with is still very small.

  Doris Lessing

  Women, Thinking, Numbers

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.9, HarperCollins UK

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• If you want to call a man to account, don't do it when he is weak; call him to account when he is strong! Cowards choose the first way and the valiant choose the second way.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Strong, Men, Way

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• Noel Coward said work is more fun than fun, but then he didn't work in the Bird's Eye factory packing frozen fish fingers nine hours a day, did he?

  Paul O'Grady

  Fun, Work, Eye

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• He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he's about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero's calm and a coward's resolve to survive at any price.

  Walter Hill

  Fear, Hero, Men

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• Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons

  George Bernard Shaw

  Order, Law, Hypocrisy

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.1383, e-artnow

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• Never hide yourself! When you say something, don't be in the shadow; let everyone see you! Whatever you say always put your name under it! Be courageous enough not to use any mask; don't forget that hiding among the bushes is the affair of the cowards! Let the Sun shines on your face and everyman see you!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Shine On, Names, Shining

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• No coward can be the friend of the truth! Cowards have always been the friends of lies!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Lying

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• A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them to carry the burden of life, to work for others, and to put their shoulders to the wheel of social life, is a coward who hides himself when the battle is on, and goes to sleep drunk on an opiate.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Brother, Sleep, Burdens Of Life

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• Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.

  William Shakespeare

  Matter, Instinct

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.663, BookCaps Study Guides

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• It is thus that mutual cowardice keeps us in peace. Were one half of mankind brave and one cowards, the brave would be always beating the cowards. Were all brave, they would lead a very uneasy life; all would be continually fighting; but being all cowards, we go on very well.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fighting, Brave, Would Be

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 326 (28 April 1778)

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• The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Running, Stupid, Men

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.309, Macmillan

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