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  • William Shakespeare Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy; rich not gaudy; for the apparel oft proclaims the man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Alan Jay Lerner Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
    Alan Jay Lerner
    American film screenwriter (1918 - 1986)
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  • Alan Jay Lerner Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.
    Alan Jay Lerner
    American screenwriter and songwriter (1918 - 1986)
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  • A. E. Housman Could man be drunk for ever
    With liquor, love, or fights,
    Lief should I rouse at mornings
    And lief lie down of nights.
    But men at whiles are sober
    And think by fits and starts,
    And if they think, they fasten
    Their hands upon their hearts.
    Last Poems (1922) No. 10, st. 2
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Publilius Syrus Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Samuel Johnson Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Charles De Montesquieu Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Edward Hoagland Country people tend to consider that they have a corner on righteousness and to distrust most manifestations of cleverness, while people in the city are leery of righteousness but ascribe to themselves all manner of cleverness.
    Edward Hoagland
    American Novelist, Essayist (1932 - )
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  • David Seabury 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
    American psychologist, author, and lecturer (1885 - 1960)
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  • Plutarch Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • John Wayne Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
    John Wayne
    American actor and filmmaker (1907 - 1979)
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  • C. S. Lewis Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Clive Staples Lewis Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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  • Ambrose Redmoon Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
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  • Mark Twain Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear .
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Amelia Earhart Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.
    Amelia Earhart
    American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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  • Thomas S. Monson Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.
    Thomas S. Monson
    American religious leader and author (1927 - 2018)
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  • Augustus William Hare Courage, when it is not heroic self-sacrifice, is sometimes a modification and sometimes a result of faith.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Bill Hicks Courtroom for Ted Bundy's trial is packed with women, trying to meet him and give him love letters and wedding-fucking-proposals...and the first thought that enters my mind is, And I'm not getting laid. What am I doing wrong?
    Arizona Bay
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Epictetus Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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