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Quote by Joseph Conrad
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No dis

The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. – Joseph Conrad

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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. – Joseph Conrad

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alone
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Joseph Conrad
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As to honor – you know – its a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasnt theirs. – Joseph Conrad

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Women
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Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if you have to dig a little. – Tori Amos

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill

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What Ive always said is that Im opposed to institutional racism, and I wouldve, had Ive been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism. – Rand Paul

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Genius is talent set on fire by courage. – Henry Van Dyke

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Say not that honor is the child of boldness, nor believe thou that the hazard of life alone can pay the price of it: it is not to the action that it is due, but to the manner of performing it. – Akhenaton

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The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. – Johannes Kepler

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Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. – Mark Twain

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