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They overvalue courage forgetting that without knowledge it is only recklessness...Less bluff, more study.

— Epifanio de los Santos

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It is not strange that Menendez Pelayo should discover the Filipino scholar because in brains and heart they were the same.

There is nothing more regenerating than music.

The Filipino is a true cosmopolitan. From him the world may expect something new and distinctive.

When every Filipino home shall contain such a national work, stimulative of autonomous sentiments...then the Philippines will be spiritually and practically independent.

He was both great, and very, very human.

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Courage is never born with a person; time and circumstances inject it into a person and bring it forth from within.

Sanu Sharma

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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