Quote#Courage
Courage is the price that
Quote byAmelia Earhart · 1897–1939
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Poetry written around the time of the breaking of her "tenuous engagement" to Samuel Chapman (c. 1928), published in Amelia, My Courageous Sister : Biography of Amelia Earhart (1987) by Muriel Earhart Morrissey and Carol L. Osborne, p. 74; also in Amelia : A Life of the Aviation Legend (1999) by Don.
English (original)
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release From little things: Knows not the livid loneliness of fear, Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings.
— Amelia Earhart
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