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Showing posts with label fear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fear. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Post #2612

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.
—Seneca

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Post #2153

Apprehensions are greater in proportion as things are unknown.
—Livy

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Monday, October 05, 2015

Post #1916

Nothing routs us but the villainy of our fears.
—William Shakespeare

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Wednesday, February 06, 2013

Post #1183

One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
—Miguel de Cervantes

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Post #1058


Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
—Helen Keller

Thursday, August 02, 2012

Post #1023

When thinking won't cure fear, action will.
—W. Clement Stone

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Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Post #971

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
—John Steinbeck

Monday, April 30, 2012

Post #937

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin.
—Grace Hansen

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Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Post #842

To the man who is afraid, everything rustles.
—Sophocles

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Saturday, October 22, 2011

Friday, October 07, 2011

Post #733

If all that Americans want is security, then they can go to prison. They'll have enough to eat, a bed, and a roof over their heads.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Monday, May 23, 2011

Post #598

Envy and fear are the only two passions to which no pleasure is attached.
—John Churton Collins

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Friday, March 11, 2011

Post #525

I steer my bark with hope in my heart, leaving fear astern.
—Thomas Jefferson


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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Post #508

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.
—General George S. Patton

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Sunday, January 09, 2011

Post #464

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
—Napoleon Bonaparte

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Monday, December 27, 2010

Post #451

Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.
—Cardinal de Retz

Monday, November 22, 2010

Post #416

A man who is afraid will do anything.
—Jawaharlal Nehru

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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Post #412

I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
—Psalms 34:4

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Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Post #403

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
—Vincent van Gogh

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Monday, October 18, 2010

Post #381

Fear gives sudden instincts of skill.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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A deadly viper once bit a hole snipe's hide; But 'twas the viper, not the snipe, that died.

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