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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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Through all the employments of life each neighbor abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another. – 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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Cowards falter, but danger is often overcome by those who nobly dare. – Queens Mother Elizabeth

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

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

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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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