J. C. and A. W. Hare: Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are. — J. C. and A. W. Hare

Few persons have courage enough to appear as good as they really are.

J. C. and A. W. Hare

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Fortuna opes auferre, non animum potest. — Fortune can take away riches

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing wi — François de La Rochefoucauld

We are not downhearted, but we cannot understand what is happening to our neighb — Joseph Chamberlain

We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail. — William Shakespeare

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. — Confucius

Time is lord of thee: Thy wealth, thy glory, and thy name are his. — Thomas Love Peacock

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes corr — Oscar Wilde

And bid them love each other and be blest: And leave the troop which errs, and w — Percy Bysshe Shelley

Still sits the school-house by the road, A ragged beggar sunning; Around it stil — John Greenleaf Whittier

How intolerable people are sometimes who are happy and successful in everything. — Anton Chekhov

A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money — Mark Twain

Time, which is the author of authors. — Francis Bacon