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. . . CORRECTING see "COMMUNICATION" for related links If someone is in error, instruct them kindly and show them where they have gone wrong. If this doesn't correct them, blame yourself, or better, blame no one. --Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121180) Roman emperor [161180] and Stoic philosopher.   CORRESPONDENCE . . see "COMMUNICATION" for related links Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. --Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron] (17881824) English Romantic poet and satirist. . . see: "DISHONESTY" see: "TREACHERY" see: "VICE" see "CRIME & PUNISHMENT" for other related links see "DECEPTION" for other related links see "POLITICS" for other related links I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it. --Ashleigh Brilliant (1933 ) British-born American writer and artist. He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one. --Edmund Burke (17291797) Irish-born Whig politician and man of letters. Men are more often bribed by their loyalties and ambitions than money. --Robert H. Jackson (18921954) U.S. Supreme Court Justice [19411954] Chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. Dissenting opinion in "United States v. Wunderlich" [1951]. Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again. --Johann Kaspar Lavater (17411801) Swiss writer, Protestant pastor, and founder of physiognomics. The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty, the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community. --Theodore Roosevelt (18581919) American Republican statesman and President [19011909]. "The Eighth and Ninth Commandments in Politics" _Outlook_ [12 May 1900] In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do. --Marquis de Sade (Donatien Alphonse Franηois, Comte de Sade) (17401814) French aristocrat and writer of pornography. Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public. --Adlai E. Stevenson (19001965) American Democratic politician. There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. --Henry David Thoreau (18171862) American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher. All those men have their price. (of fellow parliamentarians) --Robert Walpole (16761745) English Whig statesman. In W. Coxe _Memoirs of Sir Robert Walpole_ [1798]. . . see: "BEAUTY" see: "WOMEN" see "THE BODY" for other related links Most women are not so young as they are painted. --Sir Max Beerbohm (18721956) English satirist and caricaturist. _The Yellow Book_ [1894] ^ ...Forevermore, when I hear the name Estee Lauder, I'll remember the time she told a wealthy customer that she could make her face creams last longer by storing them in the refrigerator. The labels came off in the cold, and the customer's maid served face cream at a formal dinner as mayonnaise. Oops. --Paul Carroll reviewing Todd G. Buchholz _New Ideas From Dead CEOs_ "The Wall Street Journal" [27 June 2007]. ^ A girl whose cheeks are covered with paint Has an advantage with me over one whose ain't. --Ogden Nash (19021971) American writer of humorous poetry. "Biological Reflection" [1931] Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man. --Yoko Ono (1933 ) Japanese poet and songwriter. ----- infucation (noun) [in-fu-'key-shκn] Putting on makeup, adding artificial color to one's face. The verb is "infucate" and the adjective, "infucational." . . see: "ADVICE" see: "TEACHING" see "COMMUNICATION" for other related links see "THE MIND" for other related links The best receipt best to work and best to take is the admonition of a friend. --Francis Bacon (15611626) English philosopher and essayist. Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers, which are always repulsed by the anvil. --Claude-Adrien Helvιtius (17151771) French philosopher. We didn't have counsellors rushing around every time somebody let off a gun, you know, asking 'Are you all right are you sure you don't have a ghastly problem?' You just got on with it. (On his shipmates in WWII.) --Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921 ) Consort of Queen Elizaberh II. BBC TV interview [August 1999] A man takes contradiction and advice much more easily than people think, only he will not bear it when violently given, even though it be well founded. Hearts are flowers; they remain open to the softly falling dew, but shut up in the violent downpour of rain. --Jean Paul Richter (17631825) German novelist. Let no man presume to give advice to others that has not first given good counsel to himself. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C. 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. ;void(0)) . . see: "FARMING" see "NATURE" for other related links Within the sun-lit forest, Our roof the bright blue sky, Where fountains flow, and wild flowers blow, We lift our heads on high. --Ebenezer Elliott (17811849) English poet. ^^ Ralph Waldo Emerson was once asked to speak at a ceremony commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the famous battle of Concord (and the two hundredth anniversary of the town's founding). Emerson considered the request a great honor and resolved to produce a literary work based on the battle. Indeed, he decided to question the surviving veterans about their experiences. One day in the course of his investigation, Emerson met a barefooted farmer driving his oxen. Curious, the poet asked the man whether everyone in the area went without shoes and stockings. "Wal, some on 'em does," the farmer replied, "and the rest on 'em minds their own business." --http://anecdotage.com/ ^^ There is nothing good to be had in the country, or, if there is, they will not let you have it. --William Hazlitt (17781830) English essayist. _The Round Table_ [1817] Far from the gay cities, and the ways of men. --Homer (c. 850? BC) Greek epic poet. _The Odyssey_, c. 800BC, bk. XIV, l. 410 I dare say you need not be told how sensual vice abounds in rural districts. Here it is flagrant beyond anything I ever could have looked for: and here while every justice of the peace is filled with disgust and every clergyman with (almost) despair at the drunkenness, quarrelling and extreme licentiousness with women here is dear good old [William] Wordsworth for ever talking of rural innocence and deprecating any intercourse with towns, lest the purity of his neighbours should be corrupted. --Harriet Martineau writing from the Lake District in 1846 to Elizabeth Barrett. In _History in Quotations_ M.J. Cohan and John Major [2004]. So *that's* what hay looks like. --Queen Mary (18671953) Queen Consort of George V. (Said at Badminton House, where she was evacuated during WWII.) In James Pope-Hennessy _Life of Queen Mary_ [1959]. If country life be healthful to the body, it is no less so to the mind. --Giovanni Ruffini (18071881) Italian poet and librettist. - I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave. --Sydney Smith (17711845) English clergyman and essayist, in 1802 cofounded "The Edinburgh Review." Letter to Miss G. Harcourt [1838]. My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon. --Sydney Smith (17711845) English clergyman and essayist, in 1802 cofounded "The Edinburgh Review." - Seldom shall we see in cities, courts, and rich families, where men live plentifully and eat and drink freely, that perfect health, that athletic soundness and vigor of constitution which is commonly seen in the country, in poor houses and cottages, where nature is their cook, and necessity their caterer, and where they have no other doctor but the sun and fresh air, and that such a one as never sends them to the apothecary. --Bishop Robert South (16341716) English theologian and author. Cities did nothing for me. It was the hinterlands that made me. --Paul Theroux (1941 ) American novelist and travel writer. "Fresh Air Fiend" With four walk-in closets to walk in, Three bushes, two shrubs, and one tree, The suburbs are good for children, But no place for grown-ups to be. --Judith Viorst (1931 ) American author. _It's Hard to Be Hip Over Thirty and Other Tragedies of Married Life_ [1968] Anybody can be good in the country. --Oscar Wilde (18541900) Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet. _The Picture of Dorian Gray_ [1891] - A man and his wife were considering traveling to Alaska for a trip the husband had long dreamed of taking. He kept talking about how great it would be to stay in a log cabin without electricity, to hunt moose and drive a dog team instead of a car. "If we decided to live there permanently, away from civilization, what would you miss the most?" he asked his wife. She replied, "You." - ----- agrestic [uh-GRES-tik], adjective: Pertaining to fields or the country; rural; rustic. bucolic [byoo-KOL-ik], adjective: 1. Relating to or typical of the countryside or its people; rustic. 2. Of or pertaining to the life and occupation of a shepherd; pastoral. noun: 1. A pastoral poem, depicting rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds. 2. A country person. hinterland [HIN-tur-land], noun: 1. A region situated inland from a coast. 2. A region remote from urban areas; backcountry. Ex.: After the plains, I could see in my mind's eye the mountains of Bosnia emerging abruptly, shrouded by mist or haze. Clouds on rocks. Birds circling. The smell of pine and plum brandy. Beyond that the oleander and the heady, Dalmatian coast opening out like some lush dream from the backdrop of a stony hinterland. --Roger Cohen, "Hearts Grown Brutal: Sagas of Sarajevo" idyll [EYE-dl], noun: 1. A simple descriptive work, either in poetry or prose, dealing with simple, rustic life; pastoral scenes; and the like. 2. A narrative poem treating an epic, romantic, or tragic theme. 3. A lighthearted carefree episode or experience. 4. A romantic interlude. Sheep are not the docile, pleasant creatures of the pastoral idyll. Any countryman will tell you that. They are sly, occasionally vicious, pathologically stupid. --Joanne Harris, _Chocolata_ morass (noun) A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot. Synonyms: quagmire, mire, quag ;void(0)) COURAGE . . see: "BOLDNESS" see: "BRAVERY" see: "CHALLENGE" see: "CONFIDENCE" see: "COWARDS" see: "DANGER" see: "RISK" see "CHARACTER" for other related links It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. --Ζsop (c.620 B.C.c.560 B.C.) (Thought to be a legendary figure.) _Ζsop's Fables_ "The Wolf and the Kid" Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. --Aristotle (384322 B.C.) Greek philosopher. In Barry Farber _Diamond Power_, p. 15 [2003]. It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else. --Erma Bombeck (19271996) American humorist. Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave. For cowards the road of desertion should be left open. They will carry over to the enemy nothing but their fears. The poltroon, like the scabbard, is an encumbrance when once the sword is drawn. --Christian Nestell Bovee (18201904) American writer. The intent and not the deed Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly Does greatly. --John Brown (17151766) English clergyman and author. "I'm very brave generally," he went on in a low voice: "only today I happen to have a headache." --Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898) English writer and logician. He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all. --Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) Spanish novelist. The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud. --Coco Chanel (18831971) French fashion designer. One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! --Winston Churchill (18741965) British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister [19401945, 19511955]. It is always easier to hear an insult and not retaliate than have the courage to fight back against someone stronger than yourself; we can always say we're not hurt by the stones others throw at us, and it's only at nightwhen we're alone and our wife or our husband or our school friend is asleepthat we can silently grieve over our own cowardice. --Paulo Coelho (1947 ) Brazilian lyricist and novelist. Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp, the latter for council; but to constitute a great man, both are necessary. --C.C. Colton (17801832) English clergyman and writer. To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle. --Confucius (551479 B.C.) K'ung Ch'iu, Chinese philosopher. In Walter Matthews _Human Life from Many Angles_. p. 35 [1922]. Courage takes many forms. There is physical courage, there is moral courage. Then there is a still higher type of couragethe courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead. --Howard Cosell (19181995) American sports journalist and author. _Like It Is_ [1974] Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882) American philosopher and poet. In Pat Williams _How to Be Like Jackie Robinson_, p. 8 [2005]. - One story, though, stood out from all the others, even though it involved a player who had absolutely no chance to make it to the Open. The player was Jeff Julian, a forty-year-old who had spent most of his pro career a step away from the bright lights of the PGA Tour. Twice, Julian had made it through Q-School and had gotten on tour, in 1996 and 2001. During that second stint, he began to feel tired, began to get the shakes on the golf course, something that had never happened to him before. He underwent a battery of tests and, in the fall, was given the worst possible news. He had ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease. ALS is, to put it bluntly, a death sentence. Most people don't live two years after being diagnosed. Julian understood all that. He also knew that he wanted to do what he loved doing most for as long as he possibly could: play golf. He told PGA tour officials in the fall that he was concerned about playing in Pro-Ams because he was starting to slur his words and he didn't want people to get the wrong idea about why. But he kept playing. He lost his playing privileges at the end of the year but was given a number of sponsor exemptions early in 2002. He hadn't made a cut but hadn't played poorly, either. A lot of times his problem was that he tired badly near the end of rounds. He just didn't have the stamina to walk eighteen holes a lot of days, especially if it was hot. He had played in a local in St. Louis and had finished tied for second, shooting 70. There was absolutely no way he was going to be able to walk thirty-six holes in a sectional, especially in June when the weather was probably going to be hot. There were suggestions that he should ask the USGA for a cart. Given the Casey Martin decision a year earlier in which the Supreme Court had ruled that a disabled golfer had the right to play in a golf cart, Julian probably would have been given a cart if he had asked. But he didn't ask. He was a believer that walking is a part of competing in golf, regardless of any court ruling. He would show up at the sectionals and walk as far as he could and play as long as he could. He made it through eighteen holes of his sectional on a blindingly hot day in St. Louis before he was forced to quit. Prior to the sectional, David Fay had thought for a fleeting moment about offering him an exemption into the Open but had quickly put it aside. The precedent would be a bad one, and, he suspected, it would call attention to Julian in a way that would have made him uncomfortable. In all, though, it wouldn't have been a bad thing to do. The USGA has the flexibility to increase the size of the field by up to three golfers if it wants toit had done so in 1994 when Arnold Palmer, Ben Crenshaw, and Seve Ballesteros had all been given exemptionsso giving Julian a spot would not have taken anyone else's spot away. And, unlike most players, Julian almost certainly would not get another crack at the Open in a year. Julian didn't make it to Bethpage. But his performance in the local and in the sectional were absolute proof that a player doesn't have to win the Open to be a hero. In this case, he didn't even have to make it to the first tee. --John Feinstein _Open: Inside the Ropes at Bethpage Black_ [2003] (Jeff Julian died in 2004.) - How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. --Benjamin Franklin (17061790) American politician, inventor, and scientist. A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. --James A. Garfield (18311881) 20th President of the United States [1881]. In Thomas A. Bailey's _Presidential Greatness_ [1966], Ch. 6. Grace under pressure. (defining "guts") --Ernest Hemingway (18891961) American novelist. In the "New Yorker" [30 November 1929]. Who hath not courage to revenge will never find generosity to forgive. --Henry Home, Lord Kames (16961782) Scottish lawyer, agriculturalist, and philosopher. The man who is just and resolute will not be moved from his settled purpose, either by the misdirected rage of his fellow citizens, or by the threats of an imperious tryant. --Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (658 BC) Roman poet. The troubles of our proud and angry dust Are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. --A.E. [Alfred Edward] Houseman (18591936) English classical scholar and poet. Last Poems, no. 9 [1922] - Courage without conscience is a wild beast. --Robert Green Ingersoll (18331899) American politician and orator know as "the great agnostic." [1882 Decoration Day Address] The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. --Robert Green Ingersoll (18331899) American politician and orator know as "the great agnostic." _Col. R. G. Ingersoll's Famous Speeches Complete_ [1906] - One man with courage makes a majority. --attributed to Andrew Jackson {Old Hickory} (17671845) American military hero and 7th president of the United States [18291837] Courage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other. --Samuel Johnson (17091784) English poet, critic, and lexicographer. - It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. --Robert F. Kennedy (19251968) American Democratic politician. Speech in South Africa [1966]. We are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential vital quality for those who seek to change a world that yields most painfully to change. --Robert F. Kennedy (19251968) American Democratic politician. - - The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (19291968) American civil rights leader. _Strength to Love_ [1963] Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it. Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. --Martin Luther King, Jr. (19291968) American civil rights leader. _Strength to Love_ [1963] - It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. --Anne Morrow Lindbergh (19062001) American writer and wife of Charles Lindbergh. Moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your conscience on the other. --Douglas MacArthur (18801964) American general. On one of the "many things, some of them not within the covers of books written by any man," that he was taught at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y. Public statement on his 84th birthday [26 January 1964]. It is better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep. --Benito Mussolini (18831945) Italian Fascist dictator. In Denis Mack-Smith _Mussolini's Roman Empire_ [1967]. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue. --Chester William Nimitz (18851966) Commander in Chief of Pacific forces during World War II. (Of the Marines at Iwo Jima [February-May 1945].) The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. --Thomas Paine [spelled Pane prior to 1774] (17371809) English-American writer and political pamphleteer. To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing. --Plutarch (A.D. 46?119?) Greek philosopher and biographer. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. --Ronald Reagan (19112004) American President [19811989] and former Hollywood actor. A statement to the American people revealing that he had Alzheimer's disease [5 January 1995]. Courage consists, not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing and conquering it. --Jean Paul Richter (17631825) German novelist. Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. --Eddie Rickenbacker (18901973) American fighter pilot. You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. --Eleanor Roosevelt (18841962) American human rights activist, diplomat, and wife of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It's harder to stay where you are than to get out. --Judith Rossner (19352005) American novelist. _Nine Months in the Life of an Old Maid_ [1969] Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one. --Bertrand Russell (18721970) British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate. Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission to the impending visitation, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance. --Saki [Hector Hugh Munro] (18701916) Scottish writer. _The Achievement of the Cat_ [1924] Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our bodies must tell the tale. --Robert Falcon Scott (18681912) English polar explorer. _Message to the Public_ in "The Times" [11 February 1913]. There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C. 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet. I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it. --William Tecumseh Sherman (18201891) American Union general. _Memoirs_ [1875] True courage scorns to vent her prowess in a storm of words; and to the valiant action speaks alone. --Tobias George Smollett (17211771) English satirical novelist. The Western world has lost its civil courage, both as a whole and separately, in each country, each government, each political party and of course in the United Nations. Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society. Of course there are many courageous individuals but they have no determining influence on public life. --Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918 ) Russian novelist. "The Exhausted West," commencement address at Harvard University [8 June 1978]. Courage is not limited to the battlefield... The real tests of courage are much deeper and quieter. They are the inner tests...like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood. --Charles R. Swindoll (1934 ) American evanegelical Christian pastor. "Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life" Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not look for allies in life's battlefield but to my own strength. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved but hope for the patience to win my freedom. Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; But let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure. --Rabindranath Tagore (18611941) Bengali poet, short-story writer, song composer, playwright, and painter who won the 1913 Nobel Prize for Literature. _Gitanjali and Fruit-Gathering_, p. 205 [1919] All courageous animals are carnivorous, and greater courage is to be expected in a people, such as the English, whose food is strong and hearty, than in the half starved commonalty of other countries. --Sir William Temple (16281699) English statesman and diplomat. The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage. --Thucydides (c.460c.400 B.C.) Greek historian of Athens. - FELLOW CITIZENS, I am besieged by a thousand or more Mexicans, under Santa Anna ... The enemy have demanded a surrender at discretion, otherwise the garrison is to be put to the sword, if the fort is taken. I have answered the demand with a cannon shot, and our flag still waves proudly from the walls. *I shall never surrender nor retreat*... VICTORY OR DEATH. --Lieutenant Colonel William Barrett Travis (18091836) Hero of the Texas Revolution. (Dispatch of 24 February 1836.) & see: Remember the Alamo! --Battle-cry of the Texan leader Sam Houston at San Jacinto, 21 April 1836, when the Texans defeated and slaughtered Mexican troops as comprehensively as the Mexicans had annihilated the defenders of the Alamo the previous month. In M.J. Cohan and John Major (eds.) _History in Quotations_ [2004] p. 615. - It's so wrong to think that spectacular courage is the best bravery. The noblest bravery is battling against these dreadful daily assaults, often very minor, on one's spirit. --Joanna Trollope (1943 ) English novelist. _The Rector's Wife_ p. 171, [1991] Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway. --John Wayne [Marion Michael Morrison] (19071979) American motion-picture actor. Unlike virtue, courage is not its own reward. It has results. --Fay Weldon (1931 ) British novelist. _The Heart of The Country_ Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile When everything goes dead wrong. --Ella Wheeler Wilcox (18501919) American author and poet. It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. --Emiliano Zapata (18791919) Mexican revolutionary, champion of agrarianism, who fought in guerrilla actions during and after the Mexican Revolution [19111917]. In Nigel Rees _Brewer's Famous Quotations_, p. 250 [2006]. ----- bravado [bruh-VAH-doh], noun; plural bravados or bravadoes bruh-VAH-dohz: A real or pretended show of courage or boldness. doughty (adj.) ['dζw-di or 'daw-ti ] Stouthearted, (unexpectedly) valiant, courageous, often said of physically small or unassuming people. Not to be confused with dowdy "unattractively dull, old-fashioned," which is pronounced almost identical with "doughty" in most English dialects. intrepid [in-TREP-id], adjective: Fearless; bold; brave; undaunted; courageous; as, an intrepid soldier; intrepid spirit. moxie (noun) ['mahk-see or -si] New England chutzpah, gumption, pluck, spirit, courage. (Moxie was originally a medicine and in 1884 became a soft drink. 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