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A coward is one who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
Coward and Cowardice
Ambrose Bierce

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Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.
Thoughts and Thinking
Confucius

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Just as courage imperils life; fear protects it.
Fear
Leonardo Da Vinci

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Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Danger
Victor Hugo

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We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.
Cities and City Life
John F. Kennedy

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Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.
Luxury
Hannah More

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I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Humor
Lord Nelson

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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Absence
Ouida

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.
Courage
Jean Francois Regnard

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Look back, and smile at perils past.
Past
Sir Walter Scott

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For I am full of spirit and resolve to meet all perils very constantly.
Resolution
William Shakespeare

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Glory is the child of peril.
Glory
Tobias G. Smollett

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For I've been born and I've been wed -- all of man's peril comes of bed.
Bed
C. H. Webb

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun