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• If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.

  Thomas Watson

  Ignorance, Men, Wicked

  Thomas Watson (1829). “Discourses on Important and Interesting Subjects: Being the Select Works of Thomas Watson”, p.347

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• I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle.

  Peter Scott

  Eagles, Shooting, Settling

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• It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.

  Tim O'Brien

  Inspirational, Vivid, Way

  Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

  Francis Bacon

  Execution, Blind, Council

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• The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy.

  Paul Johnson

  Fear, Evil, Envy

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• There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from anothe quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing.

  Daniel Webster

  Powerful, Men, People

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• By prolonged and continued fellowship, the sheep who follow nearby enjoy the shepherd's presence and become his familiar companions. To those closest to him, he shares the choicest portions of the food he's gathered. These happy and content sheep are never in danger. Why? Because they are near the shepherd!

  Elizabeth George

  Christian, Inspiration, Sheep

  Elizabeth George (2009). “Quiet Confidence for a Woman's Heart: The Power of God's Restoration and Healing”, p.22, Harvest House Publishers

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• The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

  Lord Hailsham

  Democracy, Dull, Politics

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• Try all things by the written word, and let all bow down before it. You are in danger of [fanaticism] every hour, if you depart ever so little from Scripture; yea, or from the plain, literal meaning of an text, taken in connection with the context.

  John Wesley

  Taken, Trying, Littles

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• You will not understand your part within the framework of nature until you actually see yourselves in danger of tearing it apart.

  Seth

  Framework

  Jane Roberts, Seth (1972). “Seth speaks: the eternal validity of the soul”, Bookthrift Co

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• Dad always said that he had enough trouble sorting the fiction out of so-called facts, without reading fiction. He always said that science was already too muddled without trying to make it jibe with religion. He said those things, but he also said that science itself could be a religion, that a broad mind was always in danger of becoming narrow.

  Jim Thompson

  Dad, Reading, Mind

  Jim Thompson (1997). “Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s”

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• Acedia is a danger to anyone whose work requires great concentration and discipline yet is considered by many to be of little practical value. The world doesn't care if I write another word, and if I am to care, I have to summon all my interior motivation and strength.

  Kathleen Norris

  Motivation, Writing, Discipline

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• Good intentions will always be pleaded, for every assumption of power; but they cannot justify it ... It is hardly too strong to say, that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intention, real or pretended.

  Daniel Webster

  Strong, Real, Gun

  Daniel Webster (1854). “The speeches of Daniel Webster and his master-pieces”, p.282

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• Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.

  John Eldredge

  Spiritual, Adventure, Men

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We are not called to be safe, we are simply promised that when we are in danger, God is right there with us. And there is no better place to be than in His hands.

  Katie Davis

  Hands, Safe, Better Place

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• We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our Liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections. If an election is to be determined by a majority of a single vote, and that can be procured by a party through artifice or corruption, the Government may be the choice of a party for its own ends, not of the nation for the national good.

  John Adams

  Party, Independent, Government

  John Adams' Inaugural Address, avalon.law.yale.edu. March 4, 1797.

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• Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures.

  Francis Bacon

  Pleasure, Peril, Paid

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1858). “Essays: With Annotations by Richard Whately”, p.102

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• The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return.

  Thomas Campbell

  Peace, Stars, Night

  Thomas Campbell, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Gray (1872). “The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors”, p.151

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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

  Cheer, Inspire, World

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.1301, Delphi Classics

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• I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink.

  Henry Miller

  Fashion, Thinking, Knowing

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.29, New Directions Publishing

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• Though troubles assail And dangers affright, Though friends should all fail And foes all unite; Yet one thing secures us, Whatever betide, The scripture assures us, The Lord will provide.

  John Newton

  Scripture, Failing, Trouble

  John Newton (1839). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c”, p.113

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• Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger.

  Frank Murphy

  Religious, Degrees, Sacred

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• Where danger shews it self, apprehension cannot, without stupidity, be wanting; where danger is, sense of danger should be; and so much fear as should keep us awake, and excite our attention, industry, and vigour; but not to disturb the calm use of our reason, nor hinder the execution of what that dictates.

  John Locke

  Self, Stupidity, Attention

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely & Hume”, p.103, Cosimo, Inc.

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• A young man before he leaves the shelter of his father's house, and the guard of a tutor, should be fortify'd with resolution, and made acquainted with men, to secure his virtues, lest he should be led into some ruinous course, or fatal precipice, before he is sufficiently acquainted with the dangers of conversation, and his steadiness enough not to yield to every temptation.

  John Locke

  Father, Men, Yield

  John Locke, George Berkeley (2010). “Locke, Berkely and Hume”, p.54, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The argument of danger only applies to those who live in relative safety.

  Graham Greene

  Safety, Argument, Relative

  Graham Greene (1971). “The Collected Edition: The power and the glory”

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