Elizabeth Wein Quotes
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
Edith Piaf
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I guess you could say I'm cautious, or a coward.
Namie Amuro
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That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
Edgar Allan Poe
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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
Sallust
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From what I know about alcoholism, I'd say there's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave - nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death.
Warren Zevon
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Come back again, old heart! Ah me!Methinks in those thy coward fearsThere might, perchance, a courage be,That fails in these the manlier years;Courage to let the courage sink,Itself a coward base to think,Rather than not for heavenly lightWait on to show the truly right.
Arthur Hugh Clough
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Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.
N.D. Wilson
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There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first.
Bill Shoemaker
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The number of people that can reason well is much smaller than those that can reason badly. If reasoning were like hauling rocks, then several reasoners might be better than one. But reasoning isn't like hauling rocks, it's like, it's like racing, where a single, galloping Barbary steed easily outruns a hundred wagon-pulling horses.
Galileo Galilei
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Everything seemed to happen when you were looking the other way.
Pat Cadigan
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Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!
Galen
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I AM A COWARD.
Elizabeth Wein