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cowardice
«It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.»
Author: Annie Dillard
(Author)
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cowardice, cower, cowering, existed, faithlessness, in all likelihood, likelihood, massive, smallness
«Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing,»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Generosity,
Honesty,
Innocence,
Work
| Keywords:
candor, common interest, cowardice, disturbing, generosity, gullibility, redefine, redefined, Redefining
«If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.»
«Life is languished away in the gloom of anxiety, and consumed in collecting resolutions which the next morning dissipates; in forming purposes which we scarcely hope to keep, and reconciling ourselves to our own cowardice by excuses which, while we»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
anxiety, collecting, consumed, cowardice, dissipate, dissipated, dissipates, dissipating, excuses, forming, gloom, languished, languishes, languishing, purposes, reconciles, reconciling, resolutions, scarcely
«In the bottle discontent seeks for comfort, cowardice for courage, and bashfulness for confidence»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Confidence
| Keywords:
bashfulness, bottle, cowardice, discontent
«It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
actual, breeder, cases, chosen, corruption, cowardice, elsewhere, energies, freeman, freemen, lose it, portion, terrors, The Fear, Thousands