When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
Robert Green Ingersoll
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- It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.
- Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
- Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.
- The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
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