Henry Van Dyke Quotes About Courage
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Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery.
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Genius is talent set on fire by courage.
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Faith is an adventure; it is the courage of the soul to face the unknown. But that courage springs from the hope and confidence of the soul that its adventure will succeed.
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The brave man is intelligent; he faces danger because he understands it and is prepared to meet it. The drunkard who runs, in the delirium of intoxication, into a burning house is not brave; he is only stupid. But the clear-eyed hero who makes his way, with every sense alert and every nerve strung, into the hell of flames to rescue some little child, proves his courage.
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The more keenly we are awake to the perils of life, the higher and grander is the possibility of being truly brave.
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