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

I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark. – Samuel Johnson

It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life. – Proverb

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive. – George A. Knight

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