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... an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.

… an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
– Herman Melville

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  1. So far gone am I in the dark side of earth, that its other side, the theoretic bright one, seems but uncertain twilight to me. – Herman Melville
  2. A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things. – Herman Melville
  3. For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books. – Herman Melville
  4. When the vision fills your brain and passion hits your gut, the need to write it down cannot be stifled. (Marti Melville) – Marti Melville
  5. Are you imperfect, romantically irrational, ridiculously fearless, and utterly illogical? You’re my ideal reader, friend, partner. I’m your fan. – Brook Tesla
  6. You always know the mark of a coward. A coward hides behind freedom. A brave person stands in front of freedom and defends it for others. – Henry Rollins
  7. [T]hen all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. – Herman Melville
  8. The classification of the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here essayed. – Herman Melville
  9. [T]here is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men. – Herman Melville
  10. To a sensitive being, pity is not seldom pain. – Herman Melville
  11. Ahab and aguish lay stretched together in one hammock. – Herman Melville
  12. I’ll try a pagan friend, thought I, since Christian kindness has proved but hollow courtesy. – Herman Melville
  13. You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world…. We are not a nation, so much as a world. – Herman Melville
  14. … the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, – Herman Melville
  15. Ahab still stood like an anvil, receiving every shock, but without the least quivering of his own. – Herman Melville
  16. Come what will, one comfort’s always left -” that unfailing comfort is, it’s all predestinated. – Herman Melville
  17. Do not presume, well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed, to criticize the poor – Herman Melville
  18. I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it laughing. – Herman Melville
  19. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. – Herman Melville
  20. I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts. – Herman Melville
  21. To be enraged with a dumb thing, Captain Ahab, seems blasphemous. – Herman Melville
  22. Thought he, it’s a wicked world in all meridians; I’ll die a pagan. – Herman Melville
  23. Ignorance is the parent of fear … – Herman Melville
  24. Thy silence, then that voices thee. – Herman Melville
  25. I promise nothing complete; because any human thing supposed to be complete, must not for that very reason infallibly be faulty. – Herman Melville
  26. Be sure of this, O young ambition, all mortal greatness is but disease. – Herman Melville
  27. War yet shall be, but warriors are now operatives; war’s made less grand than peace. – Herman Melville
  28. Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time? – Herman Melville
  29. Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time? – Herman Melville
  30. Of all tools used in the shadow of the moon, men are the most apt to get out of order. – Herman Melville
  31. …the great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open… – Herman Melville
  32. All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad. – Herman Melville
  33. All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad. – Herman Melville
  34. And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  35. Bravery doesn’t always mean that you have to be fearless. No one in this world fears nothing, so if you are fearless, then you are no one. – Maureen Eguia
  36. It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far far better rest that I go to than I have ever known. – Charles ens
  37. Comrade, your statement is factually incorrect.- -œYes, it is. But it is politically correct.- (The Rise of Political Correctness) – Angelo Codevilla
  38. If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine. – Ernesto Che Guevara
  39. If books are your good friends, then a conscious life will be your best comrade all your life! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  40. One cannot take a coward on dangerous missions or trust one’s fortune to a fool. How then are cowards and fools to be employed? – Donald Kingsbury

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