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Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

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

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

The cowards never started -- and the weak died along the way.

Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive.

Every hard-boiled egg is yellow inside.

One who is in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Faint heart ne'er won fair lady.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Cowards die many times before their deaths;The valiant never taste of death but once.

Cowardice ... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.