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Analogy has two errors to
fear
- the one when it contents itself with being serviceable to wit, in which case it floats away in futile sport; the other, when it shrouds itself in tropes and similes: this last is the less dangerous of the two.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires The young, makes Weariness forget his toil, And
Fear
her danger; opens a new world When this, the present, palls.
Lord Byron
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For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no
fear
of death.
Sun Tzu
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I cannot conceive of anything after my physical death—perhaps it will end it all. The knowledge that I am now on this earth and a mysterious part of eternity is enough for me. My death will be an easy one, too, for since early youth I have always detached myself from family, friends, and surroundings. And should I live on, I have no
fear
of the next life. Whatever good I did helped to free me from myself. What a miserable creature man would be if he were good not for the sake of being good, but because religion told him that he would get a reward after this life, and that if he weren't good he'd be punished.
Albert Einstein
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There is none but he
Whose being I do
fear
; and under him
My genius is rebuked, as it is said
Mark Antony's was by Caesar.
William Shakespeare
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Fear
, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain timid looks of respect and half-dislike, and must suspend their judgement for years to come, you may begin to hope.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Only those are fit to live who do not
fear
to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Rather perish than hate and
fear
, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the
fears
will go, and Death himself will die.
Ray Bradbury
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I do not believe that any man
fears
to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Francis Bacon
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Our alliance is born, not of
fear
, but of hope. It is an alliance that advances what we are for, as well as opposes what we are against.
John F. Kennedy
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Not mine own
fears
, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Suppos'd as forfeit to a confin'd doom. The mortal moon hath her eclipse endur'd, And the sad augurs mock their own presage; Incertainties now crown themselves assur'd, And peace proclaims olives of endless age.
William Shakespeare
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A prince ought to have two
fears
, one from within, on account of his subjects, the other from without, on account of external powers. From the latter he is defended by being well armed and having good allies, and if he is well armed he will have good friends, and affairs will always remain quiet within when they are quiet without, unless they should have been already disturbed by conspiracy; and even should affairs outside be disturbed, if he has carried out his preparations and has lived as I have said, as long as he does not despair, he will resist every attack.
Niccolò Machiavelli
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Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate,
That Time will come and take my love away.
This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it
fears
to lose.
William Shakespeare
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind....Fo r Love not only annihilates our
fear
of meaninglessness but empowers us to seek the happiness of others. And this indeed is our greatest happiness.
Leo Tolstoy
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If you will take me for your wife, Walter, I will love you dearly. If you will let me go with you, Walter, I will go to the world's end without
fear
. I can give up nothing for you - I have nothing to resign, and no one to forsake; but all my love and life shall be devoted to you, and with my last breath I will breathe your name to God if I have sense and memory left.
Charles Dickens
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May we not suspect that the vague but very real
fears
of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited effects of real dangers and abject superstitions during ancient savage times?
Charles Darwin
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What made me run away was doubtless not so much the
fear
of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
Albert Camus
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Fear
of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mahatma Gandhi
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He that outlives a wife whom he has long loved, sees himself disjoined from the only mind that has the same hopes, and
fears
, and interest; from the only companion with whom he has shared much good and evil; and with whom he could set his mind at liberty, to retrace the past or anticipate the future. The continuity of being is lacerated; the settled course of sentiment and action is stopped; and life stands suspended and motionless.
Samuel Johnson
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Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous
fear
, hope, free of mountainous wanting.
Rumi
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Animals whom we have made our slaves we do not like to consider our equals. — Do not slave holders wish to make the black man other kind? — animals with affections, imitation,
fear
of death, pain, sorrow for the dead. — respect.
Charles Darwin
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A wild beast has no need to leap in order to promote
fear
.
Colette
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Fear
is the result of a lack of confidence. A lack of confidence is the result of not knowing what you can do. A lack of knowing what you can do is caused by a lack of experience. A lack of experience is caused by a lack of doing something new.
Dale Carnegie
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I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to
fear
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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All love that has not friendship for its base, Is like a mansion built upon the sand. Love, to endure life's sorrow and earth's woe, Needs friendship's solid masonwork below.
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