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Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the curtains of the next are brushed by the shadows of the dance. A wedding party returns from the church and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and.

Robert Eldridge Willmott

Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.

Vladimir Horowitz

With good and gentle-humored hearts I choose to chat where'er I come Whate'er the subject be that starts. But if I get among the glum I hold my tongue to tell the truth And keep my breath to cool my broth.

John Byrom

A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows and makes you both polite and wise.

Edward Young

Conversation is an art in which man has all mankind for competitors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cookery is become an art, a noble science; cooks are gentlemen.

Robert Burton

C is for cookie, it's good enough for me; oh cookie cookie cookie starts with C.

Cookie Monster

Such is your cold coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes," and keeps you on and off-ing On a lee-shore, till it begins to blow, Then sees your heart wreck'd, with an inward scoffing.

Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.

Benjamin Disraeli

I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart and not with his lips only, follow me.

Giuseppe Garibaldi

I have no country to fight for: my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.

Eugene V. Debs

God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, "This is my Country.".

Benjamin Franklin

We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighbours.

Joseph Chamberlain

O friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong, And let no warrior in the heat of fight Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes; For more of those who shrink from shame are safe Than fall in battle, while with those who flee Is neither glory nor reprieve from death.

Homer ("Smyrns of Chios")

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and row brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Thomas Paine

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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.

Mark Twain

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man,— it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

James A. Garfield

Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose.

Christine Comaford

The Impossible Dream To dream the impossible dream To fight the unbeatable foe To bear the unbearable sorrow To run where the brave dare not go To write the unwritable wrong To be better far than you are To try when your arms are too weary The reach the unreachable star This is my quest, to follow that star No matter how hopeless, No matter how far To fight for the right Whithout question or pause To be willing to march into hell For a heavenly cause And I know if I'll only be true To this glorious quest That my heart will be peaceful and calm When I'm laid to my rest And the world would be better for this That one man scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable star music by Leigh.

Joe Darion

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. -Amelia Earhart.

Amelia Earhart

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and row brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Thomas Paine

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death! -Earl Wilson.

Earl Wilson

Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become. Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it. Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely. -Adam Michnik.

Adam Michnik

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