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How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination. (Bierce Ambrose)
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. (Bierce Ambrose)
Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen. (Bierce Ambrose)
Fear has its use but cowardice has none. (Bierce Ambrose)
Cowards can never be moral. (Bierce Ambrose)
Cowards are cruel, but the brave love mercy and delight to save. (Bierce Ambrose)
The coward threatens when he is safe. (Bierce Ambrose)
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. (Bierce Ambrose)
When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion. (Bierce Ambrose)
It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward. (Bierce Ambrose)
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. (Bierce Ambrose)
I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl; let him come out as I do, and bark. (Bierce Ambrose)
It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so. (Bierce Ambrose)
A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. (Bierce Ambrose)
Dishonesty, cowardice and duplicity are never impulsive. (Bierce Ambrose)
That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward. (Bierce Ambrose)
It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life. (Bierce Ambrose)
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. (Bierce Ambrose)
All men would be cowards if they could. (Bierce Ambrose)
The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards. (Bierce Ambrose)
A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites. (Bierce Ambrose)
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