THE HABIT OF COURAGE.
! Courage . is--like /any other virtue, a ■ habit. But it is formed in most hoys J and girls long before they are out of their '1 teens. The. boy : who takes to swimming, , his climbing, and 'his 'cycling on la system of'*- limited risks will not develop the mind-that wins the V.C. That mind is formed by the habit of meeting : the countless little dangers of,. play and work. ■• •■" It: is -at bottom ,■ a v . mental : rather than a . physical .- quality, and it ■' is found fas "often f in; the : weak :as- in * lie '■, strong. ■ J The courage' of the" civilised man :or woman lis at botton self-respect. '* In its, lower .form, •it is' shame^^ai:iSemiriR■ a coward lto others; in finer natures it is shame in v: seeming a coward to oneself, r It becomes with exercise a keen and habitual, joy. • . - : ' .. . :
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16098, 11 December 1915, Page 6 (Supplement)
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