Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea! Educational Review - Página 178editado por - 1926Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Joe Mitchell Chapple - 1905 - 472 páginas
...of Thy wing.' "Twas enough. 'Boys,' I said, 'come. Lower rifles; we'll go home.' " Alice May Youse. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear." — Puid'nhcad Wilson in Century. If Mark Twain had been a soldier himself, and had felt that morta1.... | |
 | Joe Mitchell Chapple - 1905 - 436 páginas
...work's sake then, and it well may be That these things shall be added unto thee. Kenyon Cox TRUE VALOR. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear." — Pudfnhead Wilson in Century. If Mark Twain had been a soldier himself, and had felt that mortal... | |
 | James Terry White - 1909 - 102 páginas
...man makes brag and show of doing, while the courageous man sees the danger and bravely faces it. " Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear." 5. A woman fell off the dock in an Italian town. She was sinking and frightened. No one of the crowd... | |
 | Joe Mitchell Chapple - 1911 - 447 páginas
...wing.' '"Twas enough. 'Boys.' I said, 'come, Lower rifles; we'll go home.' " Alice May Youse. TRUE VALOR "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear." — Pudd'nhead Wilson in Century. If Mark Twain had been a soldier himself, and had felt that mortal... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1920 - 296 páginas
...admiration; No. 3 carries you clear into his heart. As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear —...creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea! — incomparably the... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1922 - 295 páginas
...judicious temperament did not insure against fire; they insured against the fire company. CHAPTER XII Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear —...creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea! — incomparably the... | |
 | 1926
...money and of himself? Courage and the Flea.—"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward...merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!—incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage. Whether... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee - 1969
...committee, and also to the distinguished witness. One of our two greatest Missourians, Mark Twain said : "courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." Of all the Eeople in this country today who have had courage and wisdom in >oking at this world situation,... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1982 - 1126 páginas
...insure against fire; they insured against the fire-company. XII COURAGE is resistance to fear, master)' of fear — not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea! — incomparably the... | |
 | Paul M. Zall - 1987 - 232 páginas
...die"— a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. Ch. 10, p. 121. 157. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear— not absence of fear. . . . When we speak of [Robert] Clive, [Horatio] Nelson, and [Israel] Putnam as men who "didn't know... | |
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