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For all men would be cowards if they durst.
Author:
John Wilmot
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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.
Author:
Brooke Westcott
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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
Author:
Martin Tupper
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Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
Author:
Tacitus
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I always disliked dogs, those protectors of cowards who lack the courage to fight an assailant themselves.
Author:
August Strindberg
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People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
Author:
August Strindberg
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The world has no room for cowards.
Author:
Robert Stevenson
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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
Author:
William Shakespeare
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
Author:
Sallust
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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Author:
Jean Rousseau
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Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
Author:
Ellis Peters
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
Author:
Ovid
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All enchantments die; only cowards die with them.
Author:
Charles Morgan
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The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face. They are cowards.
Author:
Christopher Monckton
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Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.
Author:
Margaret Mitchell
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Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.
Author:
Mignon McLaughlin
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The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.
Author:
Bryant McGill
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
Author:
Orison Marden
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We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly.
Author:
Bill Maher
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
Author:
Vince Lombardi
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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Author:
Abraham Lincoln
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This is a formidable enemy. To dismiss it as a bunch of 'cowards' perpetuating 'senseless acts of violence' is complacent nonsense. People willing to kill thousands of innocents while they kill themselves are not cowards. They are deadly vicious warriors and need to be treated as such.
Author:
Charles Krauthammer
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Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.
Author:
Walter Knott
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Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.
Author:
Eric Holder
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Reflection makes men cowards.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save.
Author:
John Gay
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I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
Author:
Dorothy Dix
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This republic was not established by cowards; and cowards will not preserve it.
Author:
Elmer Davis
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Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.
Author:
Anna Cooper
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I am not accustomed to pay fulsome compliments to the English, by telling them that they are superior to all the world; but this I can say, that they do not deserve the name of cowards.
Author:
Richard Cobden
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Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
Author:
Julius Caesar
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The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
Author:
Max Beerbohm
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When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools.
Author:
Russell Baker
