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Fear arises sooner than anything else
People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true
Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear
We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety
Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear
Nothing is so rash as fear; and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils from which they would fly
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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