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- Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure , than to take rank with those poor spires who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- He that will not sail until all dangers are over, will never put to sea.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- Fortune favors the brave.
- Virgil (70 BC - 19 BC), Aeneid
- 'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Macbeth, Act III, sc. 1
- When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Antony and Cleopatra
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