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" Roscoe Conkling was a man of superb courage. He not only acted without fear, but he had that fortitude of soul which bears the consequences of the course pursued without complaint. "

Robert Green Ingersoll

Consequences

Fear

Man

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" I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. "

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" Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. "

" To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy. "

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" Shakespeare pursued the highway of the right. He did not seek to put his characters in a position where it was right to do wrong. "

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" I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault. "

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