"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone."
-Thomas Hardy
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"It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs."
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"Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity."
-Thomas Hardy
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"The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes."
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"Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art."
-Thomas Hardy
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"Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change."
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"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
-Winston Churchill
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"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
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"I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman."
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"Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage."
-Maya Angelou
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"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."
-Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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