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"He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure."
"People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange"
"When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes."
"When a man venerates those worthy of veneration, be they Buddhas or their disciples, who have transcended all obstacles and passed beyond sorrow and tears - venerating such as these, whose passions are extinguished and for whom there is no further source for fear, no one can calculate how great his merit is."
"Nothing is to be feared but fear."
"There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it."
"The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies."
"It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear."
"The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply."
"There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time."
"The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners."
"Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves."
"Guilt and fear are a kind of rot. It spreads unless it's cleaned. And there's only one way to do that."
"If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them."
"Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?"
"To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever."
"You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing."
"Fear kills more than disease."
"Grasp not at much, for fear thou losest all."
"I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free. inscription on Kazantakis's tomb in Heraklion, Greece"
