It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
¶ (Attributed)
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Herodotus (c.484-c.420 BC) Greek historian
This I know -- if all men should take their troubles to market to barter with their neighbors, not one when he had seen the troubles of other men but would be glad to carry his own home again.
¶ Histories
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