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There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.
L. Frank Baum1856–1919The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), Chapter XVIn context
- Courage
- Fear
Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture.
Thomas Hardy1840–1928Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Chapter IIn context
- Character
- Morality
Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?
William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863Vanity Fair (1848), Chapter XXXVIn context
- Character
- Leadership
I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.
William Makepeace Thackeray1811–1863Vanity Fair (1848), Chapter XLIIn context
- Comedy
- Money
It takes all sorts to make a world.
Kenneth Grahame1859–1932The Wind in the Willows (1908), Chapter IVIn context
- Character
It was the old New York way of taking life “without effusion of blood”: the way of people who dreaded scandal more than disease, who placed decency above courage, and who considered that nothing was more ill-bred than “scenes,” except the behaviour of those who gave rise to them.
Edith Wharton1862–1937The Age of Innocence (1920), Book II, Chapter XXXIIIIn context
- Character
- Courage
She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.
Kate Chopin1850–1904The Awakening (1899), Chapter XIXIn context
- Character
The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth.
Kate Chopin1850–1904The Awakening (1899), Chapter XXVIIIn context
- Courage
- Freedom
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Prophet (1923), On GivingIn context
- Charity
Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Crime and Punishment (1867), Part I, Chapter IIIn context
- Change
- Character
Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book II: An Unfortunate Gathering, Chapter IIIIn context
- Forgiveness
- God
If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910Anna Karenina (1878), Part Eight, Chapter 12In context
- Good & Evil
I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray who finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Steppenwolf (1927), Harry Haller’s RecordsIn context
- Character
I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Macbeth (c. 1606), Act I, Scene VII, spoken by MacbethIn context
- Courage
- Men
Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act III, Scene I, spoken by PrinceIn context
- Forgiveness
- Justice