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• The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Selfish, Liars, Lying

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• Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

  Oscar Wilde

  Courage, Betrayal, Kissing

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 1, st. 7 (1898) See Roberts 1

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• The sea hates a coward.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Inspirational, Funny, Hate

  'Mourning becomes Electra' (1931) pt. 2, act 4

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• There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

  Mark Twain

  Fear, Halloween, Temptation

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 36

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• Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

  Tacitus

  Fall, Hands, Chance

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• You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Hero, Heroism, Being A Hero

  "John Bull's Other Island". Book by George Bernard Shaw (Preface), November 1, 1904.

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• Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Courage, Women, Brave

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.47, BookBaby

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• I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

  Dorothy Dix

  Fear, Dark, Worry

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• When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.

  George Sewell

  Suicide, Suicidal, Brave

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• I would often be a coward, but for the shame of it.

  Ralph Connor

  Often Is, Shame

  Ralph Connor (1900). “Black Rock: A Tale of the Selkirks”, New York ; Toronto : F.H. Revell Company

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• This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.

  Elmer Davis

  India, Republic, Preserves

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• Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

  David Seabury

  Courage, Powerful, Animal

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• Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Brave Person, Bravery

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

  William Shakespeare

  Success, Death, Veterans Day

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

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• He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Hope, Despair

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• Despair gives courage to a coward.

  Thomas Fuller

  Courage, Giving, Despair

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• I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.

  August Strindberg

  Dog, Courage, Fighting

  August Strindberg (2014). “The Confession of a Fool”, p.214, The Floating Press

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• I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Life, Success, Good Night

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.77, Oxford University Press

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• None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspirational, Fear, Martial Arts

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• To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Leadership, Freedom, Business

  "Poems of Problems" by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, "Protest", (pp. 154 - 155), 1914.

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• The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

  Jose Bergamin

  Men, Drunk, Goes On

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• To be called a coward, I don't think that's fair

  Rodney Alexander

  Thinking, Fairs

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• The coward's weapon, poison.

  John Fletcher

  Poison, Weapons

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• The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

  Mark Twain

  Race, Human Condition, Mankind

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.130, Univ of California Press

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• The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

  Max Beerbohm

  Non Conformist, Conscience, Conformist

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.142, New York Review of Books

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