"A man that flies from his fear may……" — J.R.R. Tolkien
"A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it."
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756 Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.
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Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight…
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He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a…
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Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or…
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Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet…
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Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.
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The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a…
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The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.
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Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love…
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One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be…
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Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and…
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The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed…
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More Cowardice Quotes
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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
— Pietro Aretino
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To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,…
— Aristotle
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Cowardice and courage are never without a measure of affectation. Nor is love. Feelings are never true. They play with…
— Jean Baudrillard
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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice.…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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There are five dangerous faults which may affect a general: recklessness, which leads to destruction; cowardice, which leads to capture;…
— Sun Tzu
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The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is perhaps cowardice.
— Charles Lamb
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