Quote#Courage
Coward dread lacks order, fear wants art
Quote byEdward Fairfax · 1580–1635
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Quoted in England's Parnassus (1600), Book VII, stanza 114.
English (original)
Coward dread lacks order, fear wants art, Deaf to attend, commanded or desired.
— Edward Fairfax
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The rose within herself her sweetness closed.
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