"Fire and fear, good servants, bad lords."
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"Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree."
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"I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead."
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"If there was no fear, how could there be comfort? Or courage?"
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"And yet, for some time now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true we do not know it; but is it not just that which is most our own of which we know the least?"
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"The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had."
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"This world is like Noah's Ark. In which few men but many beasts embark."
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"It is death, and not what comes after death, that men are generally afraid of."
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"Nature does not cocker us: we are children, not pets: she is not fond: everything is dealt to us without fear or favor, after severe universal laws."
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"If I quake, what matters it what I quake at? Our proper vice takes form in one or another shape, according to the sex, age, or temperament of the person, and, if we are capable of fear, will readily find terrors."
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"O friend, never strike sail to a fear!"
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"Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die."
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"I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live."
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"We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live."
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"Pain is superficial, and therefore fear is. The torments of martyrdoms are probably most keenly felt by the by-standers."
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"He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel."
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"Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong... But it might."
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"When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die."
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"In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize."
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"Don't they get afraid, then?" "They have a religion for that."
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