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• We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

  Seneca the Elder

  Inspirational, Hurt, Stress

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• He that is down needs fear no fall.

  John Bunyan

  Inspirational, Fall, Failure

  'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1684) pt. 2 'Shepherd Boy's Song'

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• Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating.

  Samuel Richardson

  Hate, Hatred, Human Nature

  Samuel Richardson (1862). “Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprenhending the Most ...”, p.19

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• Don't fear, just live right.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Justice, Brighten Your Day

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• O! How vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.

  Ben Jonson

  Passion, Men, Vain

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1816). “The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory, and a Biographical Memoir”, p.133

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• Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Religion, Leviathan, Invisible

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan - Revised Edition”, p.110, Broadview Press

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• The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents

  Michel de Montaigne

  Passion, World, Trouble

  Michel de Montaigne (1853). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.24

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• In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear?

  Hannah More

  Grief, Ends, Worst

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.121

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• He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 244), 1895.

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• Fear has a smell, as love does.

  Margaret Atwood

  Smell, Doe

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Surfacing”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

  Jean Anouilh

  Men, Frightened, God Is There

  Jan Austell, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Bernard Shaw, Thornton Wilder (1971). “The play as theater”

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• What are fears but voices airy?
  Whispering harm where harm is not.
  And deluding the unwary
  Till the fatal bolt is shot!

  William Wordsworth

  Voice, Whispering, Airy

  William Wordsworth (1827). “The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth”, p.114

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• To almost no one's surprise, Astrid said, "Dune, by Frank Herbert. 'I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that bring total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the Fear has gone there will be nothing.'" She and Lana together spoke the last phrase of the incantation. "'Only I will remain.

  Michael Grant

  Eye, Past, Scary

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• And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Religious, Heart

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 2: 1859-1865: Library of America #46”, p.261, Library of America

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• When we face our fears, we can find our freedom.

  Joyce Meyer

  Freedom, Scare, Faces

  Twitter post from Jul 4, 2013

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• FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.

  Frank Herbert

  Fantasy Novels, Scary, Mind

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.203, Penguin

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• We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Life, Yesterday, Worry

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• Any fear associated with giving to God's kingdom is irrational. It's on par with a farmer who, out of fear of losing his seed, refuses to plant his fields.

  Andy Stanley

  Giving, Kingdoms, Fields

  Andy Stanley (2015). “Fields of Gold”, p.9, NavPress

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• When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Respect, Courage

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I'm too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.

  Martin Amis

  People, Trying, Meals

  FaceBook post by Martin Amis from Mar 21, 2015

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• What would you do if you weren't afraid?

  Spencer Johnson

  Life, Change, Women

  Spencer Johnson (1998). “Who Moved My Cheese?: An A-Mazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life”, p.27, Penguin

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• It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.

  Margaret Mead

  Fog, Punishment, Religion

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• Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

  Henry Miller

  Inspiration, Giving, Self Control

  Henry Miller (1972). “The Henry Miller reader”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

  Gertrude Stein

  Inspiring, Scary, Dangerous

  Everybody's Autobiography (1937) ch. 2

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