{"id":3098,"date":"2014-08-10T09:07:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-10T16:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=3098"},"modified":"2014-08-10T09:07:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-10T16:07:55","slug":"quotes-about-picking-your-battles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/quotes-about-picking-your-battles\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes About Picking Your Battles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b style=\"color: #000000;\">I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee.<\/b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0~\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #006633;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=The%20Two%20Towers\">The Two Towers<\/a><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0by\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #006633;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=J.%20R.%20R.%20Tolkien\">J. R. R. Tolkien<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight.&#8221;<\/b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0~\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #006633;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Our%20Mutual%20Friend\">Our Mutual Friend<\/a><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0by\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #006633;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Charles%20Dickens\">Charles Dickens<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b style=\"color: #000000;\">By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.<\/b><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0~\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #006633;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Moby%20Dick\">Moby Dick<\/a><\/i><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0by\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #006633;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_author_resp.php?AName=Herman%20Melville\">Herman Melville<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Courage Quotes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_topic_resp.php?QuoteType=Courage\">See More Quotes About Courage<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/PickingBattles.gif\" alt=\"Courage Quotes\" width=\"320\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am wise enough to know that there are some perils from which a man must flee.\u00a0~\u00a0The Two Towers\u00a0by\u00a0J. R. R. Tolkien &#8220;My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[825,572,100,682,99,98,685],"class_list":["post-3098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything-else","tag-charles-dickens","tag-courage-quotes","tag-herman-melville","tag-j-r-r-tolkien","tag-moby-dick","tag-our-mutual-friend","tag-the-two-towers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}