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"Water, earth, air, fire, and the other parts of this structure of mine are no more instruments of your life than instruments of your death. Why do you fear your last day? It contributes no more to your death than each of the others. The last step does not cause the fatigue, but reveals it. All days travel toward death, the last one reaches it."
"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground."
"Which not peace for the man who is forced to go to war, for he will find his peace. But wish peace for the man who goes to war willingly, for he will never find his peace."
"I just have this thing inside me that wants to eat and conquer. Maybe it's egotistical, but I have it in me. I don't want to be a tycoon. I just want to conquer people and their souls."
"Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear."
"I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship."
"He is a man, and he is afraid. This is not a good combination."
"We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship."
"Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many run away. . . The risk of inner experience, the adventure of the spirit, is in any case alien to most human beings. The possibility that such experience might have psychic reality is anathema to them."
"I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive."
"Fear makes us feel our humanity."
"Poverty with security is better than plenty in the midst of fear and uncertainty."
"Fear hurries on my tongue through want of courage."
"The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear."
"None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear."
"The greatest fear comes when God is a stranger."
"We fear only what we haven’t understood."
"Unity of man has always been impossible in a world of fear and discontent where every man fears every other man as an enemy."
"Be just, and fear not."
"We believe that preparation eradicates cowardice, which we define as the failure to act in the midst of fear."
