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The wooden walls are the best walls of this kingdom.
Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry
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Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!
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For want of me the world's course will not fail:When all its work is done, the lie shall rot;The truth is great, and shall prevail,When none cares whether it prevail or not.
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To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.
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The more wild and incredible your desire, the more willing and prompt God is in fulfilling it, if you will have it so.
— Coventry Patmore
Fortunately for themselves and for the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions.".
— Coventry Patmore
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