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Behold the turtle: He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. - James B. Conant We must dare, and dare again, and go on daring. - Georges Jacques Danton Who dares not speak his free thoughts is a slave. - Euripides A decent boldness ever meets with friends. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. 7, l. 67), (Pope's translation) And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared. - Homer ("Smyrns of Chios"), The Odyssey (bk. II, l. 312), (Pope's translation) And what they dare to dream of, date to do. - James Russell Lowell, Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration (st. 3) By daring, great fears are concealed. - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan) Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face. - William Barnes Rhodes, Bombastes Furioso (act I, sc. 4) Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. [Ger., Wer nicht waget der darf nichts hoffen.] - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Don Carlos The will to do, the soul to dare. - Sir Walter Scott And dar'st thou then To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall? - Sir Walter Scott, Marmion (canto VI, st. 14) I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Macbeth at I, vii) What man dare, I dare. Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble. - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Macbeth at III, iv) Be bolde, be bolde, and everywhere be bolde. - Edmund Spenser No one reaches a high position without daring. [Lat., Nemo timendo ad summum pervenit locum.] - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb. - William Makepeace Thackeray Dare to act! Even Venus aids the bold. [Lat., Audendum est; fortes adjuvat ipsa Venus.] - Albius Tibullus, Carmina (I, 2, 16)
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