There is a mist across the land ...
of tears.

The mist evolves into courage.
Courage is the ladder on which
all the other virtues mount.
  - Clare Booth Luce

Courage is not the absence of fear,
but rather the judgment that something else
is more important than fear.
  - Ambrose Redmoon

Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
  - Plautus