Write on your doors the saying wise and old,"Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere-- "Be bold;Be not too bold!" Yet better the excessThan the defect; better the more than less;Better like Hector in the field to die,Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
boldness, braveness, bravery, cowardice, excess