"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."

Christian Nestell Bovee, American Author

Fear, Ignorance

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"Of course we're friends ... we are both civilized men, aren't we? We've shared bed and board and bottle. We'll always be friends, and the dog collar I have on you will always be ignored by mutual consent, and I'll take good and benevolent care of you. All I ask in return is your soul. Small item. We can even ignore the fact that you've handed it over, the way we ignore the dog collar."

Stephen King, American Author

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"You cannot avoid what you fear because what you fear is inside of you."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"When I was young I used to have this nightmare about dying. I used to lie awake at night screaming. All my schoolfriends went to heaven or hell, and I was sent to Southend."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

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"Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"May it not be that he loves chaos and destruction (there can be no disputing that he does sometimes love it) because he is instinctively afraid of attaining his object and completing the edifice he is constructing? Who knows, perhaps he only loves that edifice from a distance, and is by no means in love with it at close quarters; perhaps he only loves building it and does not want to live in it, but will leave it, when completed..."

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Russian Novelist

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"Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"In the world of lovers, there is no fear."

Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann, British Musician

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"I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side."

Criss Jami, American Philosopher

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"A coward talks to everyone but YOU."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"So many horrid Ghosts."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"You cannot avoid what you fear because what you fear is inside of you."

"When I was young I used to have this nightmare about dying. I used to lie awake at night screaming. All my schoolfriends went to heaven or hell, and I was sent to Southend."

"Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society."

"Some mysteries bite and barkand come to get you in the dark."

"In the world of lovers, there is no fear."

"I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side."

"A coward talks to everyone but YOU."

"So many horrid Ghosts."

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"Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave."

"We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none."

"As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue."

"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."

"There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable."

"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."