People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.
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Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
Courage is a kind of salvation.
The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
It takes courage, of course, to step out of the fray, as it takes courage to do anything that's necessary, whether tending to a loved one on her deathbed or turning away from that sugarcoated doughnut.
Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
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