"In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves."

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The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own cast- off griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. We should impart our courage, and not our despair, our health and ease, and not our disease, and take care that this does not spread by contagion.

— Henry David Thoreau