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"When you're frightened don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give your back your courage."

— Grace Emily Akinyi Ogot

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"Death knocks at your door, and before you can tell him to come in, he is in the house with you."

Whenever you want to see me, always look at the sunset; I will be there.

It is always the woman who has to toe to the line.

I am deeply conscious of our traditions.

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Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.

William Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1599)

All doubt is cowardice — all trust is brave.

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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