Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
353
AUTHOR:
Joanna Baillie (17621851)
QUOTATION:
The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fears subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from.
ATTRIBUTION:
JOANNA BAILLIE, Basil: A Tragedy, The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie, vol. 1, p. 39 (1832).