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"We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them."
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"At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream."
"It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black."
"Throughout the evolution of mankind our very much primordial ancestors had one thing in common, it was ignorance. This ignorance gave birth to fear. Fear of the unknown became a quintessential element of their daily survival. To ace the intensity of the fear, rituals of worship arose."
"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
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"There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable."
"The passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways and dangerous only in one, through their excess."
"Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire."
"No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities."
"Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave."
"In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at."
"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."
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