“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the
World, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised
to find it come off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to
scare away timid adventurers.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
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so courage is simply the conquest and suppression of fear by going straight on in the path of duty and love.
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The drunkard who runs, in the delirium of intoxication, into a burning house is not brave; he is only stupid.
But the clear-eyed hero who makes his way, with every sense alert and every nerve strung, into the hell of flames to rescue some little child, proves his courage.
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Manly strength respects womanly purity, sympathy, and grace of heart. And this is the real chivalry of the present hour.

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Who therefore has nothing to hide, he alone is manly.The bad man may be audacious, but he has no true courage. His manliness is only a pretense, an empty shell, a bold demeanor, with no real firmness behind it.

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which is not the slave of custom, the fool of fashion. It does not seek display, it is often the courage of silence no less than speech; it is modest courage, unpretending though resolute. It holds fast to its convictions and principles, whether men hear or whether they forbear.

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And so it causes truth to prevail, and keeps up the standard of a noble purpose in the world.

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He must work hard and play hard. He must be clean-minded and clean-lived, and able to hold his own under all circumstances and against all comers. It is only on these conditions that he will grow into the kind of American man of whom America can be really proud.

- Theodre Roosevelt

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“The superior man is he who develops, in harmonious
proportions, his moral, intellectual, and physical nature. This should be the end at which men of all classes should aim, and it is this only which constitutes real greatness.” —Douglas Jerrold

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helpless instead of self-supporting, sickly instead of robust, weak instead of strong, leaning instead of erect. “So many promising youths, and never a finished man."
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These seven virtues can be striven for by any man, in any situation. Rich or poor,
young or old, married or single. From the soldier to the civilian, from the
corporate warrior to the stay-at-home dad, the path of virtuous excellence is
open to and vital for all men.
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