The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.
Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly.
I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.
None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
Being, be bold and venture to be wise.
Reading books everyone died, none became any wise.
One who reads the word of Love, only becomes wise.
As there are none so weak that we may venture to injure them with impunity, so there are none so low that they may not at some time be able to repay an obligation. Therefore, what benevolence would dictate, prudence would confirm.
Ah, the bitter, hopeless heart-hunger of godlessness none but an atheist can understand!
To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.
It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.
This is emphatically an age of discoveries; but I will venture the assertion, that none but an American slaveholder could have discovered that a man born in a country was not a citizen of it.
Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.
The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.