"Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger."
-Francis Quarles
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"Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.“
-Francis Quarles
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"That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end."
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"If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail."
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"Beware of him that is slow to anger for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury."
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"Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester."
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"Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor."
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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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