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"The sight of the eye, the hearing of the ear, the touch of the hand may each and all be deceived, but the instructions of the spirit are in all things correct. The combined senses may misguide or fail, but he who happily secures the companionship of the Holy Spirit, walks in the ways of life and neither fears, becomes weary nor faints by the wayside."
"There's a lot youdon't know, Sam. There's a lot I don't tell you. I know who I am. I know what I do, and what I am to this place.I know what I am to you, and how much you depend on me.You may be the symbol, and you may be the one everyone turns to when something goes bad, and you're the big badass, but I'm the guy doing the day-in, day-out work of running things. So I don't make this about me."
"It never hurts a fool to appear before an audience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling."
"Men are not afraid of things, but of how they view them."
"It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't."
"The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace"
"You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns."
"Anything you want to do is possible; fear is not meant to prevent but to motivate your heart into the life you naturally think is improbable."
"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."
"What an incredible drug fear is."
"... reason accepts no commandments."
"There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak."
"The opposite of courage is not so much fear as it is conformity."
"Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts."
"It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow."
"If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important."
"Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear."
"Refuse to let the thought of death bother you: nothing is grim when we have escaped that fear."
"Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person."
"Fear and hope are alike underneath."
