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To see what is right and not do it, is want of courage -- Confucius
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else -- Niebulur
Physical courage which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way -- Moral courage, which despises all opinion -- will make a man brave in another -- The former would seem most necessary for the camp; the latter for the council; but to constitute a great man -- BOTH ARE NECESSARY -- Colton
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger; but in seeing and conquering it -- Richter
True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason -- Whitehead
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He that is extravagant will soon become poor, and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption -- Johnson
The passion of acquiring riches in order to support a vain expense, corrupts the purest souls -- Fenelon
Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses -- Theophrastus
That is suitable to a man, in point of ornamental expense, not which he can afford to have, but which he can afford to lose -- Whately
The man who builds, and lacks wherewith to pay, provides a home from which to run away -- Young
_Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects -- Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold; extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license -- Chapman
Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few persons whose devotion is of long continuance -- St Euremond
Mistrust the man who finds everything good; the man who finds everything evil; and still more the man who is indifferent to everything -- Lavater
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Some persons are exaggerators by temperament -- They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that their statements are largely discounted by those of calm judgment and cooler temperament -- They do not realize that "we always weaken what we exaggerate" Tryon Edwards
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood, and nearly as blameable -- H Ballou
Exaggeration as to rhetoric, is using a vast force to lift a feather; as to morals and character, it is using falsehood to lift one's self out of the confidence of his fellowmen -- Paget
There are some persons who would not for their lives tell a direct and willful lie, but who so exaggerate that it seems as if for their lives they could not tell the exact truth -- Paget
Never speak by superlatives; for in so doing you will be likely to wound either truth or prudence -- Exaggeration is neither thoughtful, wise, nor safe -- It is a proof of the weakness of the understanding, or the want of discernment of him that utters it, so that even when he speaks the truth, he soon finds it is received with partial, or even utter unbelief -- Hume
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WHAT IS DIFFICULTY? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools; only a stimulus to men -- Samuel Warren
The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them -- Goethe_
It has been the glory of the great masters in all arts to confront and to overcome; and when they had overvc0me the first difficulty, to turn it into an instrument for new conquests over new difficulties; thus to enable then to extend the empire of science - Burke
Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the Supreme guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, and loves us better too. -- He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill -- Our antagonist is our helper -- Burke
The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties -- hope is born in the long night of watching and fears - Faith visits us in defeat and disappointment, amid the consciousness of earthly frailty and the crumbling tombstones of mortality -- E H Chapin
It is not every calamity that is a curse - and early adversity is often a blessing - Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us in our future struggles -- Sharp
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