Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil t

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become. – Brooke Foss Westcott

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