Quote by John Gay
Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save.

Cowards are cruel, but the brave Love mercy, and delight to save. – John Gay

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How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards. – John Gay

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A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine. – John Gay

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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

To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny ones faith in man and God, even ones own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith. – Mahatma Gandhi

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There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life. – Charles Ives

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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. – Henry David Thoreau

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It is always during a passing state of mind that we make lasting resolutions. – Marcel Proust

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Jesus Christ is a prince of peace. He told us to live in peace. He told us to love our enemies. He told us to do good to them that spitefully use us. – Pat Robertson

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