Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyerand its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "The Great American Novel"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 November 1835
CountryUnited States of America
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That's what an army is - a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.
army army-and-navy born borrowed courage fight
That's what an army is -- a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.
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It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare
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Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.
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Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.
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Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
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To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.
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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.
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In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.
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Why is it that, among men, physical courage is a trait so plenteous yet moral courage is a trait so rare?
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What's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?
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When a man's dog turns against him it is time for a wife to pack her trunk and go home to mama