Emotions and Feelings

Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

The man who in wavering times is inclined to be wavering only increases the evil, and spreads it wider and wider; but the man of firm decision fashions the universe.

Cynics are only happy in making the world as barren to others as they have made it for themselves.

Cynics are only happy in making the world as barren to others as they have made it for themselves.

I know perfectly well the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.

The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism.

Cynic, n . A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

Curiosity is the thirst of the soul; it inflames and torments us, and makes us taste every thing with joy.

Curiosity is the thirst of the soul; it inflames and torments us, and makes us taste every thing with joy.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.

They sicken of the calm, who know the storm.

A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.

A little tumult , now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

Cowardice is the unpardonable sin in a man.

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

It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

The most mortifying infirmity in human nature, to feel in ourselves, or to contemplate in another, is, perhaps, cowardice.

Coward, n . One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.