Write on your doors the saying wise and old, " Be bold! be bold! " and everywhere-- "Be bold; Be not too bold! " Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less; Better like Hector in the field to die, Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly,

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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  1. Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword - Oscar Wilde

  2. No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens. - Veronica Roth

  3. The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. - Oprah Winfrey

  4. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. - Mary Tyler Moore

  5. When I lost my sight, Werner, people said I was brave. When my father left, people said I was brave. But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same? - Anthony Doerr

More Quotes By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  1. The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books

  2. As Unto the bow the the cord is , So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him , yet she follows: Useless each without the other.

  3. I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

  4. Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall

  5. Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.

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