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

Other quotes by Joseph Conrad

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. – Joseph Conrad

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Despair
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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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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. – Joseph Conrad

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Butterflies
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Courage
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In my old age, I have been thinking about this, and I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. – Oriana Fallaci

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Courage

We need men with moral courage to speak and write their real thoughts, and to stand by their convictions, even to the very death. – Robert Green Ingersoll

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Courage

Courage! I have shown it for years think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? – Marie Antoinette

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Courage

Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father. – Josephus Daniels

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Courage

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Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. – David Star Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair

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I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor. – Rod Stewart

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