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• Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.

  Thomas Browne

  Brother, Prayer, Sleep

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• Suicide is not to fear death, but yet to be afraid of life. It is a brave act of valour to contemn death; but when life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valour to dare to live; and herein religion hath taught us a noble example, for all the valiant acts of Curtius, Scarvola, or Codrus, do not parallel or match that one of Job.

  Thomas Browne

  Suicide, Jobs, Taught Us

  Sir Thomas Browne (1845). “Religio Medici: Together with a Letter to a Friend on the Death of His Intimate Friend and Christian Morals”, p.112

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• And still I look for the men who will dare to be
  roses of England
  wild roses of England
  men who are wild roses of England
  with metal thorns, beware!
  but still more brave and still more rare
  the courage of rosiness in a cabbage world
  fragrance of roses in a stale stink of lies
  rose-leaves to bewilder the clever fools
  and rose-briars to strangle the machine.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Clever, Lying, Men

  D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.214, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Men do not often dare to avow, even to themselves, the slow progress reason has made in their minds; but they are ready to follow it if it is presented to them in a lively and striking manner, and forces them to recognize it.

  Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

  Men, Mind, Progress

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• No woman dares express all she thinks.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Thinking, Timidity

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• A thing is either alive or it isn’t; there is nothing that is almost alive. There is but the remotest possibility of the origin of life by spontaneous generation, and every likelihood that Arrhenius is right when he dares to claim that life is a cosmic phenomenon, something that drifts between the spheres, like light, and like light transiently descends upon those fit to receive it.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Light, Origin Of Life, Spheres

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• I know a good many people, I think, who are bigots, and who know they are bigots, and are sorry for it, but they dare not be anything else.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Sorry, Thinking, People

  "Living Words". Book by Edwin Hubbel Chapin, 1869.

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• Dare to declare who you are. It is not far from the shores of silence to the boundaries of speech. The path is not long, but the way is deep. You must not only walk there, you must be prepared to leap.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Long, Silence, Speech

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• A man's opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow.

  Tobias Smollett

  Animal, Men, Different

  Tobias Smollett (1822). “The History of England: From the Revolution in 1688, to the Death of George II. Designed as a Continuation of Hume”, p.184

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• The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Brave, Virtue

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• I drink, I huff, I strut, look big and stare; And all this I can do, because I dare.

  Theresa Villiers

  Looks, Drink, Bigs

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• What a fool is he who locks his door to keep out spirits, who has in his own bosom a spirit he dares not meet alone; whose voice, smothered far down, and piled over with mountains of earthliness, is yet like the forewarning trumpet of doom!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Doors, Voice, Mountain

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.387, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation, but that wise men thinking for themselves and heartily seeking the good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life; that the moral nature should be addressed in the school-room, and children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Education, Wise, Children

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2005). “The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.51, University of Georgia Press

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• I never feel that I have comprehended an emotion, or fully lived even the smallest events, until I have reflected upon it in my journal; my pen is my truest confidant, holding in check the passions and disappointments that I dare not share even with my beloved.

  Francine Mathews

  Disappointment, Passion, Writing

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• I find no foeman in the road but fear; to doubt is failure and to dare success.

  Frederic Lawrence Knowles

  Fear, Doubt

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• Christians alone are in a position to rescue the perishing. We dare not settle down to try to live as if things were 'normal.' Nothing is normal while sin and lust and death roam the world, pouncing upon one and another till the whole population has been destroyed.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Lust, Trying

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• What we know matters, but who we are matters more. Being rather than knowing requires showing up and letting ourselves be seen. It requires us to dare greatly, to be vulnerable.

  Brené Brown

  Knowing, Who We Are, Matter

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.23, Penguin

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• Our culture, therefore, must not omit the arming of the man. Let him hear in season, that he is born into the state of war, and that the commonwealth and his own well-being require that he should not go dancing in the weeds of peace, but warned, self- collected, and neither defying nor dreading the thunder, let him take both reputation and life in his hand, and, with perfect urbanity, dare the gibbet and the mob by the absolute truth of his speech, and the rectitude of his behaviour.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Weed, War, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.74, 谷月社

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• Dream big, dare greatly and shine brightly.

  Robin Sieger

  Dream, Shining, Bigs

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• We often make use of envenomed praise, that reveals on the rebound, as it were, defects in those praised which we dare not exposeany other way.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Criticism, Way, Use

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• I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor.

  Terry Pratchett

  People, Reason, Minors

  "Terry Pratchett: my case for a euthanasia tribunal" by Terry Pratchett, www.theguardian.com. February 2, 2010.

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• Dare to believe that good things are possible when you follow your heart.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Believe, Heart, Good Things

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• Behind every success, there lies a magical word: Dare!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Success, Lying, Behinds

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• It is really important to solve the problem of rational utilization and distribution of wate supplies. I dare say, the shortage of fresh water is the major ecological problem of this moment.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Water, Environmental, Important

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• There must be limits, somewhere, to the human footprint on this earth. When the whole of the world is reduced to nothing but human product, we will have lost the map that can show us how we got here, and can offer our spirits an answer when we ask why. Surely we are capable of declaring sacred some quarters that we dare not enter or possess.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Environmental, Earth, Sacred

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.87, Faber & Faber

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