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The brave man is not he who feels no fear,
For that were stupid and irrational;
But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues,
And barely dares the danger nature shrinks from.

Source: Basil, Act 111, Sc. I, 1798.
-- Joanna Baillie, (Sep 11 1762-1851), Scottish poet, dramatist; Her plays, mainly in verse, were highly praised at a period when serious drama was in decline; wrote her Plays on the Passions, 3 vol., 1798-1812.

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