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“How
to Develop Self-Confidence
In Speech and Manner” eBook Online Version
Give us men! Men--from every rank, fresh and free and frank; men of thought and reading, men of light and leading, men of loyal breeding, the nation's welfare speeding: men of faith and not of fiction, men of lofty aim in action; give us men! I say again-- again--give us men! Strong and stalwart ones; men whom hope inspires, men whom purest honor fires, men who trample self beneath them, men who make their country wreath them as her noble sons, worthy of their sires; men who never shame their mothers, men who never fail their brothers, true, however false are others: give us men--I say again, give us men! Give us men! Men who, when the tempest gathers, grasp the standard of their fathers in the thickest fight: men who strike for home and altar (Let the coward cringe and falter), God defend the right! True as truth though lorn and lonely, tender, as the brave are only; men who tread where saints have trod, men for country--home--and God: give us men! I say again--again--give us men!--Bishop of Exeter.
Fear makes man a slave to others. This is the tyrant's chain. Anxiety is a form of cowardice embittering life.—William Elleey Chaining.
A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest confidence in its lowest estate.--Sidney.
Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it and conquering it.
--Richter.
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