• But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.3 · 63 votes · 156 reads

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• Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.8 · 23 votes · 5 reads

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• Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

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  John Quincy Adams

  PoliticianAmerican1767 · 18th century

  4.3 · 8 votes · 169 reads

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• Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.0 · 62 votes · 159 reads

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• Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  4.4 · 46 votes · 63 reads

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• Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.9 · 39 votes · 122 reads

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• Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  4.3 · 61 votes · 128 reads

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• Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

  

  Plutarch

  EssayistGreek46 · 1st century

  3.0 · 12 votes · 174 reads

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• Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  4.3 · 62 votes · 13 reads

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• Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.7 · 31 votes · 134 reads

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• Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.9 · 45 votes · 106 reads

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• Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 9 votes · 68 reads

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• Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.6 · 53 votes · 66 reads

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• Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.1 · 51 votes · 31 reads

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• Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.7 · 59 votes · 51 reads

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• Courage is grace under pressure.

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  5.0 · 49 votes · 82 reads

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• Courage is knowing what not to fear.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 55 votes · 145 reads

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• Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  4.8 · 41 votes · 194 reads

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• Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the r

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 6 votes · 200 reads

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• Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

  

  C. S. Lewis

  AuthorIrish1898 · 19th century

  4.3 · 15 votes · 115 reads

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 21 votes · 1 reads

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• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.2 · 24 votes · 197 reads

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• Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.0 · 46 votes · 111 reads

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• Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  5.0 · 58 votes · 35 reads

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• Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.1 · 43 votes · 80 reads

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• Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

  

  Plutarch

  EssayistGreek46 · 1st century

  3.8 · 33 votes · 175 reads

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• Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  4.0 · 29 votes · 116 reads

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• Courage without conscience is a wild beast.

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  Robert Frost

  PoetAmerican1874 · 19th century

  3.6 · 62 votes · 15 reads

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• Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.6 · 31 votes · 156 reads

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• Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  4.0 · 26 votes · 99 reads

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• Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  3.2 · 18 votes · 81 reads

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• Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 43 votes · 57 reads

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• For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  4.3 · 12 votes · 131 reads

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• Fortune and love favor the brave.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  3.3 · 63 votes · 137 reads

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• Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.9 · 50 votes · 149 reads

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• Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

  

  Pericles

  PoliticianGreek-495 · 5th century BC

  4.4 · 35 votes · 200 reads

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• Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.7 · 11 votes · 64 reads

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• Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  3.7 · 41 votes · 123 reads

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• Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.2 · 42 votes · 174 reads

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• Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.4 · 58 votes · 146 reads

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• He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.9 · 34 votes · 114 reads

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• He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.4 · 43 votes · 197 reads

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• He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  3.9 · 51 votes · 94 reads

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• Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

  

  Martin Luther

  LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century

  3.1 · 13 votes · 125 reads

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• Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.1 · 18 votes · 72 reads

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• I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.5 · 6 votes · 67 reads

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• I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.3 · 20 votes · 134 reads

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• I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  3.4 · 55 votes · 143 reads

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• I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.8 · 22 votes · 183 reads

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• I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  4.3 · 50 votes · 23 reads

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• I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

  

  Lewis Carroll

  NovelistEnglish1832 · 19th century

  4.0 · 58 votes · 12 reads

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• If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

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  Publius Cornelius Tacitus

  WriterRoman55 · 1st century

  3.6 · 37 votes · 68 reads

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• If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 5 votes · 93 reads

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• In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

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  Joseph Stalin

  LeaderRussian1879 · 19th century

  3.4 · 8 votes · 81 reads

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• It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

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  Robert Frost

  PoetAmerican1874 · 19th century

  3.7 · 20 votes · 158 reads

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• It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.6 · 45 votes · 128 reads

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• It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way… that is not easy.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.2 · 62 votes · 118 reads

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• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.6 · 29 votes · 75 reads

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• It is right to endure with resignation what the gods send, and to face one's enemies with courage.

  

  Pericles

  PoliticianGreek-495 · 5th century BC

  4.3 · 36 votes · 47 reads

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• It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourishe

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  3.7 · 62 votes · 107 reads

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• It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  4.0 · 14 votes · 61 reads

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• It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.1 · 17 votes · 164 reads

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• It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

  

  Jean Anouilh

  PlaywrightFrench1910 · 20th century

  3.2 · 48 votes · 110 reads

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• It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 38 votes · 62 reads

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• It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

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  Anaïs Nin

  AuthorFrench1903 · 20th century

  3.4 · 29 votes · 6 reads

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• It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

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  Owen D. Young

  LawyerAmerican1874 · 19th century

  4.4 · 33 votes · 54 reads

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• It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.4 · 13 votes · 73 reads

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• Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 40 votes · 136 reads

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• Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.9 · 18 votes · 146 reads

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• Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 35 votes · 91 reads

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• Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

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  Anaïs Nin

  AuthorFrench1903 · 20th century

  5.0 · 42 votes · 88 reads

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• Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  3.7 · 41 votes · 174 reads

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• Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

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  Dale Carnegie

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.2 · 51 votes · 3 reads

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• No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 58 votes · 88 reads

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• No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.9 · 40 votes · 16 reads

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• No one reaches a high position without daring.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  3.4 · 45 votes · 49 reads

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• Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 8 votes · 81 reads

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• Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

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  Truman Capote

  AuthorAmerican1924 · 20th century

  4.2 · 21 votes · 94 reads

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• Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 25 votes · 133 reads

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• One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 12 votes · 173 reads

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