"Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love."
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"To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true."
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"I can't run away when I'm scared. I always have to attack. That's how I deal with seemingly difficult things."
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"The sovereign voluntary path to cheerfulness, if our spontaneous cheerfulness be lost, is to sit up cheerfully, to look round cheerfully, and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there. If such conduct does not make you soon feel cheerful, nothing else on that occasion can. So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end, and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear."
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"The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers."
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"Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed."
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"Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear."
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"It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter"
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"Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear."
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"So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety - like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in the palm of its hand and will not let you fall."
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"Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions."
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"Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground."
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"He that hopes no good fears no ill."
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"Fear . . . is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday."
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"I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it."
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"Set aside a certain number of days, during which you shall be content with the scantiest and cheapest fare, with course and rough dress, saying to yourself the while: " Is this the condition that I feared?""
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"Ignorance is the cause of fear."
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"If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date."
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"Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone."
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"Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day."
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