David Dudley Field II Quotes
To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice.
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The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
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Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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The UFC didn't want me to fight there so what could I do? We were unable to make a deal. They offered unacceptable conditions.
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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.
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Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable.
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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.
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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.
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I have no remedy for fear; there growsNo herb of help to heal a coward heart.
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It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
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At sixteen I get drafted. When I read the draft notice, I cry. Not because I'm a coward - I'm not afraid of anyone. But I don't want to kill or be killed.
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He was a hopeless coward and gambled so heavily it was a sheer miracle as how to he still wasn't thrown out into the street for being disorderly or being arrested for drunk driving.
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I believe that every man has in his soul a passion for treasure-hunting, which will often drive a coward into prodigies of valour.
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Death is the fate no one can escape. The question, then, is, How does one die? A person can die like a hero or like a coward. The difference is that the hero can face death without fear, whereas the coward can't.
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Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect—you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them.
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Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.
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A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.
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Nothing comes into being without a cause and when all the conditions are created, there is nothing that can prevent the consequence.
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For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements.
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It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.
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To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice.
