Quote#Courage
No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in…
Quote byWilliam Hickling Prescott · 1796–1859
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Biographical and Critical Miscellanies, "Scottish Song" (1826), p. 588..
English (original)
No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the gloom of the churchyard as in the blaze of the drawing-room. The season and the place may be such as to oppress the stoutest heart with a mysterious awe, which, if not fear, is near akin to it.
— William Hickling Prescott
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