"If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours."
-Charles Caleb Colton
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"We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.“
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"Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship - never."
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"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away."
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"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power."
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"No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health."
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"Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the reverse of the picture."
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"A line from one of my 1997 columns - 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - is now widely attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, though I have yet to see any evidence that she ever said it and I don't believe she did. She said some things about fear, but not that thing."
-Mary Schmich
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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us."
-Marianne Williamson
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"In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation."
-Simone de Beauvoir
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"Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."
-Graham Greene
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"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
-Marcus Aurelius
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"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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