Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a

Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen. – Epictetus

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The coward threatens when he is safe. – Johann von Goethe

How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination. – Jeremy Collier

Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare. – Queens Mother Elizabeth

A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs. – Ambrose Bierce

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