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• Any man who is a man may not, in honor, submit to threats or violence. But many men who are not cowards are simply unprepared for the fact of human savagery.

  Jeff Cooper

  Men, Honor, May

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.9, Paladin Press

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• Lack of conditioning will make a coward of us all.

  Dominick Cruz

  Mma, Conditioning

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• These internet trolls are cowards who are poisoning our national life. No-one would permit such venom in person, so there should be no place for it on social media.

  Chris Grayling

  Media, Troll, Internet

  "Crackdown on the cyber-mobs poisoning Britain: Sentence for web trolls to be quadrupled to two years after shocking high-profile online abuse cases" By Glen Owen, www.dailymail.co.uk. October 18, 2014.

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• Anything in life worth doing is worth overdoing. Moderation is for cowards.

  Seal

  Survivor, Navy Seal, Moderation

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• A moral coward is one who is afraid to do what he thinks is right because others will disapprove or laugh. Remember that all men have their fears, but those who face their fears with dignity have courage as well.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Courage, Men, Thinking

  Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

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• Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.

  Murong Xuecun

  Safe, Criticise

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• Heroes and cowards feel the same fear and action creates opportunities.

  Garrison Wynn

  Hero, Opportunity, Action

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• Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Character, Order, Political

  Whitney v. California (concurring opinion) (1927) See OliverWendell Holmes, Jr. 29

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• The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom't were gross flattery to name a coward.

  John M. Tobin, Jr.

  Kindness, Women, Hands

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• Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Freedom, Hands, Feelings

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.174, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The person who is right is the person who is the strongest, in this case, paradoxically, it's the cowards who are the brave ones, and they manage to impose their ideas on everyone else.

  Paulo Coelho

  Ideas, Brave, Cases

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• I understood that there would be some backlash, and that scared me, honestly. But deep down, I felt like it was the right thing to do. And if I was to run away from what I felt in my soul was the right thing to do, that would make me a coward. I can’t live with that. God wouldn’t be able to put me where I am today, and as far as I’ve come in life, if I was a coward.

  Andrew Hawkins

  Running, Soul, Able

  "Andrew Hawkins delivered an excellent speech regarding his call for justice". Andrew Hawkins' speech on his decision to wear a "Justice for Tamir Rice and John Crawford" T-shirt during warm-ups and introductions before the game against the Bengals, waitingfornextyear.com. December 15, 2014.

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• Peace without Justice is a low estate,— A coward cringing to an iron Fate! But Peace through Justice is the great ideal,— We'll pay the price of war to make it real.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Peace, Real, War

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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• I believe that every man has in his soul a passion for treasure-hunting, which will often drive a coward into prodigies of valour.

  John Buchan

  Believe, Passion, Men

  John Buchan (2017). “Prester John”, p.114, BookRix

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• It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.

  Enoch Powell

  Government, Blind, Traitor

  "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, (p. 53), 1999.

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• I must speak the truth, even at the risk of being ostracized by my fellow scribblers. In fact, anticipating their rage, I have already applied for a place in the Canada Council's witness-protection program. This because, much as it pains me to turn on my kind, I fear the time has come to admit that far too many celebrated writers were outrageous liars, philanderers, drunks, druggies, unsuitable babysitters, plagiarists, psychopaths, parasites, cowards, indifferent dads or moms and bad credit risks.

  Mordecai Richler

  Mom, Pain, Dad

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• There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.

  Glen Cook

  Heart, Dark, Plot

  Glen Cook (2007). “Chronicles of the Black Company”, p.331, Macmillan

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• I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Courage, Military, Heart

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1865). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.96

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• Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

  Jonathan Swift

  People, Emergencies

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• A brave man is sometimes a desperado: a bully is always a coward.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Men, Bully, Brave

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1853). “Sam Slick's wise saws and modern instances: or, What he said, did, or invented”, p.105

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• the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.

  Anais Nin

  Surprise, Cynicism, Cynic

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• In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet even then it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Selfish, Brave, Soul

  Frederick William Robertson (1850). “An address delivered to the members of the Working Man's Institute, at the Town Hall, Brighton, on Thursday, April 18, 1850, on the question of the introduction of sceptical publications into the library”, p.13

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• Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.

  William Hazlitt

  Passion, Reflection, Men

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• Shoulder-to-shoulder, swing to the work, we must - just two as we are - if we hope to make some headway. The worst cowards, banded together, have their power, but you and I have got the skill to fight their best.

  Homer

  Fighting, Swings, Skills

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• Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Hero, Made

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1705, Manonmani Publishers

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