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He ne’er is crown’d
With immortality, who fears to follow
Where airy voices lead.
John Keats1795–1821Endymion (1818), Bk. II, l. 211In context
We differ, blind and seeing, one from another, not in our senses, but in the use we make of them, in the imagination and courage with which we seek wisdom beyond the senses.
Helen Keller1880–1968The Five-sensed World (1910)
- Wisdom
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968Day of Affirmation Address, University of Cape Town (6 June 1966)
- Hope
- Justice
Given ships or sails adapted to the breezes of heaven, there will be those who will not shrink from even that vast expanse.
Johannes Kepler1571–1630Translated by Edward Rosen, Kepler’s Conversation with Galileo’s Sidereal Messenger (1965), p. 39.
- Science
Real warriors like William Burroughs or Leonard Cohen or Wallace Stevens examine the hollow as well as anybody; they get in there, look far into the dark, and yet come out with poetry.
KKKen Kesey1935–2001The Paris Review interview (1994)
- Poetry
This man in his own country prayed we know not to what powers.
We pray them to reward him for his bravery in ours.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Epitaphs of the War (1914-1918) (1918)
- War & Peace
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,
Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat;
But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth,
When two strong men stand face to face, tho’ they come from the ends of the earth!
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936The Ballad of East and West (1889)In context
- Men
The great virtue in life is real courage that knows how to face facts and live beyond them.
D. H. Lawrence1885–1930
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963The Screwtape Letters (1942), Letter XXIX
He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken.
Jack London1876–1916The Call of the Wild (1903), Chapter IIn context
- Character
Here I stand; I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen!
Martin Luther1483–1546At the Diet of Worms (18 April 1521). The words are in early printed accounts of his reply but not in the record of the session, which has only “God help me, Amen”, so whether he said them is disputed
- Faith
Duty, honour, country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964Sylvanus Thayer Award acceptance speech to the cadets of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York (12 May 1962)
- Faith
- Hope
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle — the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other.
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964
The magnificence of the courage and fortitude of the Korean people defies description.
Douglas MacArthur1880–1964Farewell address to Congress (1951)
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods
Thomas Babington Macaulay1800–1859Horatius (1842)In context
- Life & Death