Cryptogram pack 1: Courage

Cryptogram Pack 1
five courage quotations in substitution cipher · puzzleprintery.com

Five quotations on courage, each encrypted with its own letter substitution. A stands for a different letter in every puzzle, and no letter ever stands for itself. Type in the boxes to solve on screen, or print the pack.

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Puzzle 1 by William Shakespeare

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Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, 1604

Puzzle 2 by Mark Twain

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson, 1894

Puzzle 3 by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1841

Puzzle 4 by Publilius Syrus

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No one knows what he can do till he tries.

Publilius Syrus, Maxims, 1st century BC

Puzzle 5 by Aesop

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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

Aesop, The Wolf and the Kid, fable moral

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