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There are times when fear is good
It must keep its watchful place
at the heart's controls. There is
advantage in the wisdom won from pain.
* Aeschylus
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The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.
* Richard Bach
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
* Edmund Burke
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Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
* Cyril Connolly
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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
* Epictetus
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A child understands fear, and the hurt and hate it brings.
* Nadine Gordimer
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
* Edgar Watson Howe
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One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool.
* Jewish Proverb
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The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
* Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
* Bertrand Russell
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Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual--and the soul of a people.
* Anwar el- Sadat
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In time we hate that which we often fear.
* William Shakespeare
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.
* Mark Twain
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Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
* Leonardo da Vinci
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Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
* Marianne Williamson
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