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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 353
AUTHOR: Joanna Baillie (1762–1851)
QUOTATION: The brave man is not he who feels no fear,
For that were stupid and irrational;
But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues,
And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
ATTRIBUTION: JOANNA BAILLIE, “Basil: A Tragedy,” The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie, vol. 1, p. 39 (1832).
SUBJECTS: Courage