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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear–not absence of fear.  Except a
creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely
a loose misapplication of the word.  Consider the flea!–incomparably the
bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.
Whether you are asleep or awake [...]