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  • I was a coward. I went to the war.

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  • Marvin Kitman A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
    Marvin Kitman
    American television critic, humorist, author (1929 - 2023)
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  • Jean Paul A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • N. Coward Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
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  • Mahatma Gandhi A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Thomas Jefferson A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Ambrose Bierce A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Euripides A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • John Calvin A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
    John Calvin
    French theologian, pastor and reformer (1509 - 1564)
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  • William Hazlitt A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • George Eliot Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Akhenaton As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • John Irving Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world - a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • David Gemmell By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism.
    Legend (2011) 33
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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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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  • Horace Smith Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
    Horace Smith
    English poet and writer (1779 - 1849)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Hosea Ballou Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
    Hosea Ballou
    American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' (1771 - 1852)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Albert Camus He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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