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Henry David Thoreau's insights on Courage aren't theoretical—they're battle-tested wisdom from someone who operated at the highest level. This collection distills that experience into quotable principles, each with source context for verification. When you're navigating Courage in the real world, these quotes offer the kind of practical guidance that only comes from direct experience.
"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison... the only house in a slave State in which a free man can abide with honor."
Website: Wikiquote - Henry David Thoreau (Civil Disobedience (1849))
"I am here to plead his cause with you. I plead not for his life, but for his character — his immortal life; and so it becomes your cause wholly, and is not his in the least. Some eighteen hundred years ago Christ was crucified; this morning, perchance, Captain Brown was hung. These are the two ends of a chain which is not without its links. He is not Old Brown any longer; he is an angel of light."
Website: Wikiquote - Henry David Thoreau (A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859))
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