"This is the century of fear."
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"Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe."
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"Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men."
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"As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best."
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"The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear."
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"Early and provident fear is the mother of safety."
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"Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time."
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"Father, O father! what do we here In this land of unbelief and fear?"
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"Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all."
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"In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants."
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"When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents."
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"Nothing routs us but the villainy of our fears."
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"I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O list!"
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"When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear."
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"Hang those that talk of fear."
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"Be wary then; best safety lies in fear."
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"It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't."
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"To be furious, is to be frighted out of fear."
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"What are fears but voices airy? Whispering harm where harm is not. And deluding the unwary Till the fatal bolt is shot!"
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"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning."
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