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Example sentences for "moral courage"

  • O'Connor and the men who, blindly and weakly, and with an abominable lack of moral courage, followed their leadership, which has kept one hundred thousand tenants still under the heel of landlordism in Ireland.

  • Moral courage is a rare endowment, and those who possess it are able to act with perfect independence of the opinions of others, and govern themselves only by the laws of propriety, uprightness and charity.

  • In cases where principle is concerned, it is, of course, necessary to be firm, which requires an exercise of moral courage.

  • You should discriminate between deliberate self-interested deception, and failure in truth for want of moral courage.

  • Had what was kindly called forbearance been really neglect and want of moral courage?

  • It might perhaps have earlier taught him moral courage.

  • Moral courage is not identical with the fanaticism which invites destruction; fanaticism supplies a motive which dispenses with courage, though it operates as courage might.

  • With this impetuosity of character, he possessed a large share of moral courage.

  • There have been men, and still are such, leaders of their age in moral courage, and yet physically timid.

  • But, on the other hand, the American women have a virtue which the men have not, which is moral courage, and one also which is not common with the sex, physical courage.

  • The two great causes of the present lawless state of society in the South are a mistaken notion of physical courage, and a total want of moral courage.

  • But we need not go to such an exceptional occurrence as that to find a field for this exercise of moral courage.

  • The Confederates had failed in war, but their leaders had not the moral courage to accept the only practicable peace.

  • It exhibited them at the same time as singularly deficient in the attribute of moral courage.

  • In civil courage, moral courage, or courage shown in the minute circumstances of everyday life, the same law is true.

  • So far from courage being unfeminine, there is a peculiar grace and dignity in those beings who have little active power of attack or defence, passing through danger with a moral courage which is equal to that of the strongest.

  • Now, I think John Wesley showed a great deal of moral courage when he started to preach in the open air.

  • DO you know what "moral courage" is, young readers?

  • This was, indeed, moral courage; he did it because he felt it was the right thing to do, and that God wanted him to do it.

  • Norman; "without an atom of moral courage to stand any persuasion short of being desired to put his head into the fire--a perfect coward!

  • And where did you get your moral courage, Mr. Norman?

  • Very commonly, however, they do not go together; or perhaps I ought rather to say, that while persons who have moral courage often have natural courage too, a great many persons who have natural courage have no moral courage.

  • I was thinking of moral courage," replied the other quietly; "and that often goes with presence of mind.

  • Well, but you have not told me what you mean by moral courage.

  • Many of you joined in this shameful affair for the want of moral courage, and scarcely one of you really desired to enter into it.

  • I could not then analyze my moral nature and detect the wrong, but years have since shown me ‘twas in the lack of moral courage, in the yielding to what I was ashamed of, simply because I was ashamed to refuse.

  • If it had been easy, there would have been no moral courage about it.

  • But Susy was learning every day, and this time it had been a lesson in moral courage.

  • Besides, she considered it a good opportunity to teach Susy a lesson in moral courage.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    anything like; first reception; moral agency; moral agents; moral beauty; moral causes; moral conduct; moral distinctions; moral good; moral insanity; moral necessity; moral obligation; moral philosophy; moral principle; moral purpose; moral sense; moral sentiment; moral support; moral truth; moral value; moral virtue; much superior; pain and; sixty cents; stopping short; telling him