"I shall never fear or avoid things of which I do not know."
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"The man who fears losing has already lost."
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"My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me."
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"What sense or thought do they have? They follow the popular singers, and they take the crowd as their teacher."
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"As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things."
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"Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear."
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"Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand."
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"To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business. Even in the name of love, it is pure arrogance, and the result is tension, anxiety, and fear. Do I know what's right for me? That is my only business. Let me work with that before I try to solve problems for you."
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"That's where the fear comes from-from your uninvestigated thoughts."
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"Numb the dark and you numb the light."
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"The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness."
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"Gratitude and fear can't stand the sight of each other."
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"Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence."
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"Elrond's house was perfect, whether you liked food or sleep or story-telling or singing (or reading), or just sitting and thinking best, or a pleasant mixture of them all. Merely to be there was a cure for weariness. ... Evil things did not come into the secret valley of Rivendell."
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"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other."
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"The desire to be a free person is very worthwhile. To be free means you are no longer the victim of fear, anger, craving, or suspicion."
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"The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart."
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"The soul attracts that which it secretly harbors; that which it loves, and also that which it fears. It reaches the height of its cherished aspirations. It falls to the level of its unchastened desires - and circumstances are the means by which the soul receives its own."
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"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it."
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"There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs."
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