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"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."
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"Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences."
"At the advent of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal force in the human heart: one very reasonably invites a man to consider the nature of the peril and the means of escaping it; the other, with a still greater show of reason, argues that it is too depressing and painful to think of the danger since it is not in man's power to foresee everything and avert the general march of events, and it is better therefore to shut one's eyes to the disagreeable until it actually comes, and to think instead of what is pleasant. When a man is alone he generally listens to the first voice; in the company of his fellow-men, to the second."
"There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead."
"A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man."
"There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to provide for its own retirement."
"Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention."
"The only reason for your intimidation by the devil, and your being afraid of him, or what he can do is because you are living in ignorance (darkness) which is his territory."
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"Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves."
"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."
"A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough."
"It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it."
"Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it."
"The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better."
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