Quotes with brave

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  • Mark Twain The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Seneca The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Thomas Paine The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Mary Elizabeth Braddon There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands.
    Mary Elizabeth Braddon
    English novelist (1835 - 1915)
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  • Ben Jonson They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Emily Dickinson To fight aloud is very brave, but gallanter, I know, who charge within the bosom, the Cavalry of Woe.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Jeremy Collier True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us manage to remain greedy.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley We are ashamed to seem evasive in the presence of a straightforward man, cowardly in the presence of a brave one, gross in the eyes of a refined one, and so on. We always imagine, and in imagining share, the judgments of the other mind.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Aristotle We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • A. Philip Randolph We want the full works of citizenship with no reservations. We will accept nothing less... This condition of freedom, equality, and democracy is not the gift of gods. It is the task of men, yes, men, brave men, honest men, determined men.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
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  • Abraham Cowley What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Arthur Hugh Clough Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?
    Arthur Hugh Clough
    English poet (1819 - 1861)
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  • Homer Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause.
    Homer
    Greek poet (850 - 750)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Oscar Wilde 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!
    The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1897)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Stephen King You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
    On Writing (2002) 275
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Omar Khayyam You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
    Omar Khayyam
    Persian astronoom, poet (1048 - 1131)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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