Article March 14, 1903 Issue

The brave man is the elder son of creation, who has...

Thoreau

The brave man is the elder son of creation, who has stepped buoyantly into his inheritance, while the coward, who is the younger, waiteth patiently until he decease. He rides as wide of this earth's gravity as a star, and by yielding incessantly to all the impulses of the soul, is constantly drawn upward and becomes a fixed star. His bravery deals not so much in resolute action, as healthy and assured rest; its palmy state is a staying at home and compelling alliance in all directions. So stands his life to heaven, as some fair sunlit tree against the Western horizon, and by sunrise is planted on some Eastern hill, to glisten in the first rays of dawn. The brave man braves nothing nor knows he of his bravery.—Thoreau.

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