But me thought it lessened my ...

But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.
But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain.
 Samuel Pepys

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
I'm a fighter through and through. I don't fear any person and to go inside that ring with a feared mentality, why even go inside the ring?
 Daniel Jacobs
I think there was the studio mentality for a long time that women and girls can relate to a male hero, but boys and men can't relate to a female hero.
 Jennifer Lawrence
Bravery is fearlessness-the absence of fear. The merest dolt may be brave because he lacks the mentality to appreciate his danger.
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Quotes from the same author

Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
 Samuel Pepys
But Lord! To see the absurd nature of Englishmen that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at everything that looks strange.
 Samuel Pepys
I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.
 Samuel Pepys
Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most ingenious book that I ever read in my life.
 Samuel Pepys
At the Royall Oake Taverne, I drank a sort of French wine called Ho Bryan, that hath a good and most particular taste that I never met with.
 Samuel Pepys