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No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next day...

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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and...

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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step throu...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a swe...

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I would always encourage people of any age not to be so quick to follow other people's truths but to...

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We call our country home of the brave and land of the free, but it's not. We give a false portrayal ...

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It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady and t...

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It is one thing to be brave in front of others, perhaps for fear of being branded a coward and becom...

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In order to achieve anything,you must be brave enough to fail.

Only the brave know how to forgive it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature ...

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Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave it is not in his nature.

Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some ...

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Memphis found his smile. 'You know me, sir. I don't wear worry.

You remember that I told you it was safer not to know. But,' he went on, as his hands moved wuth the...

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it is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything

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Lois LowryNumber the Stars

Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

As long as we know what it's about, then we can have the courage to go wherever we are asked to go, ...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love it is the prerogative of the brave.

Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I t...

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I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I...

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It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

How I wish you could have known me in my strength.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do ...

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In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and ...

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

But only a brief momentis granted to the braveone breath or two, whose wage isThe long nights of the...

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We can't be brave without fear.

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Muhammad AliThe Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

And he said that wasn’t brave of him, doing that, just standing there and being stung,’ said Coralin...

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Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or ...

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You don’t need princes to save you. I don’t have a lot of patience for stories in which women are re...

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You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old ba...

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Be brave, young lovers, and follow your star.

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are,...

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Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known o...

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I like being brave well enough, but I will be a lazy coward again if you think that would be better.

....harmony that would fittingly imitate the utterances and accents of a brave man who is engaged in...

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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

What makes the hero truly greatis never, never to despair.

...with a strong strong glow of courage, drank off the potion.

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Robert Louis StevensonThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Don't you know Poole, you and I are about to place ourselves in a position of some peril?

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Robert Louis StevensonThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

He felt ready to face the devil, and strutted in the ballroom with the swagger of a cavalier.

Maybe there's a way out of the cage where you liveMaybe one these days you can let the light inShow ...

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Sara BareillesSara Bareilles - The Blessed Unrest

Say what you wanna say and let the words fall out

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Sara BareillesSara Bareilles - The Blessed Unrest

If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the w...

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Isn't bravery always sort of beautiful?

And it’s all my fault, Gale. Because of what I did in the arena. If I had just killed myself with th...

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Standing there at the stage door to the rest of your life. Time to dip your toe into the deep end. T...

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Maybe you lost someone you never expected you would lose. Maybe you lost yourself. That’s even worse...

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It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Al...

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Ricewind had always relied on running away. But somerimes, perhaps, you had to stand and fight, if o...

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The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great ...

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Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do n...

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We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst...

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What did you do?” I mumble. He is just a few feet away from me now, but not close enough to hear me....

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I am proud. It will get me into trouble someday, but today it makes me brave

My body rises with the water. Instead of kicking my feet to stay abreast of it, I push all the air f...

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It's when you're acting selflessly that you are at you bravest

Is it selfish for me to crave victory or is it brave?

I can pretend to be brave, but I'm not

He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had done—almos...

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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something ...

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It is vain for the coward to flee death follows close behind it is only by defying it that the brave...

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The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to f...

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Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

A brave action is often followed by grief. Do not let my resistance to grief stop the brave action.

All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.""Not to mention th...

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No one is as brave, as adventurous or as skillful as D'Artagnan, without at the same time being incl...

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Alexandre DumasThe Vicomte de Bragelonne

Only the brave men and women can bring peace to the world, not by practicing war but by practicing n...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

President Obama called for a 'we' nation in his Inauguration Address. Art convenes. It is not just i...

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They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is ...

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When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

Doing something brave is much like saying something stupid. You rarely plan on it happening.

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Brandon SandersonAlcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

This was Jace being brave. Simon thought, brave and snarky because he thought Lilith was going to ki...

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Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it?

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encour...

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I just tell you what happens. I don't explain it.

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.

She was brave from excess of grief

There is a thin line between peace of the brave and peace of the hostage... between compromise - eve...

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On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as ...

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