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• If you ever, ever, ever meet a grizzly bear, / You must never, never, never ask him where / He is going, / Or what he is doing; / For if you ever, ever dare / To stop a grizzly bear, / You will never meet another grizzly bear.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Grizzly Bears, Grizzlies, Verses

  Mary Hunter Austin (1928). “The children sing in the far West”

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• I have learned by experience that a tragic end awaits anyone who dares cross swords with me; Nasser is no more, John and Robert Kennedy died at the hands of assassins, their brother Edward has been disgraced, Krushchev was toppled, the list is endless.

  Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

  Brother, Hands, Assassins

  "The Shah and I: The Confidential Diary of Iran's Royal Court, 1968-77". Book by Asadollah Alam, p. 202, 1991.

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• An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist.

  Henry Adams

  Venus, Command, Virgins

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.377, Booklassic

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• I dare not think that any supercelestial heaven, or whatsoever else ... was increate and eternal. And as for the place of God before the world created, the finite wisdom of mortal men hath no perception of it; neither can it limit the seat of infinite power, no more than infinite power itself can be limited; for his place is in himself, whom no magnitude else can contain.

  Walter Raleigh

  Men, Thinking, Heaven

  Walter Raleigh (1736). “The History of the World in Five Books”, p.5

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• Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society . . . loses the confidence of its own people, and its published works are used as wastepaper instead of being read.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Pain, People, Literature

  Open letter to the Fourth Soviet Writers' Congress (16 May 1967) as translated in "Solzhenitsyn: A Documentary Record" edited by Leopold Labedz, "The Struggle Intensifies", 1970.

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• How many people would like to get up in a social prayer-meeting to say a few words for Christ, but there is such a cold spirit of criticism in the church that they dare not do it.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Prayer, People, Criticism

  Dwight L Moody (2013). “Secret Power”, p.17, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The beings who appear cold, but are only timid, adore where they dare to love.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Love, Cold, Adore

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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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• 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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• 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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• The truly valiant dare everything but doing anybody an injury.

  Philip Sidney

  Injury, Valiant, Valor

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• Social opinion is like a sharp knife. There are foolish people who regard it only with terror, and dare not touch or meddle with it. There are more foolish people, who, in rashness or defiance, seize it by the blade, and get cut and mangled for their pains. And there are wise people, who grasp it discreetly and boldly by the handle, and use it to carve out their own purposes.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Wise, Pain, Cutting

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.23

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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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• The youth who, like a woman, loves to adorn his person, has renounced all claim to wisdom and to glory; glory is due to those only who dare to associate with pain, and have trampled pleasure under their feet.

  Francois Fenelon

  Pain, Vanity, Feet

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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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• Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Pride, Men, Thinking

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Emerson's Essays: Top Essays”, p.50, 谷月社

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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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• All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Humanity, Doe, Extinction

  "Critical Path". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1981.

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• One of the most difficult things to say to another person is, 'I hope that you will love me for no good reason.' But it is what we all want and rarely dare to say to one another, to our children, to our parents and mates, to our friends, and to strangers, especially to strangers who have neither good, nor bad reasons to love us.

  Russell Banks

  Children, Parent, Want

  "American Spirituality: Tony Campolo and Russell Banks". Interview with Michael Carey, www.abc.net.au. July 19, 2000.

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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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