Quotes by category:Fear

And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us. by Ian Rush

And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.

"Do not fear! Heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land!" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Do not fear! Heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land!"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The skin of the coward changes color all the time, he can't get a grip on himself, he can't sit still, he squats and rocks, shifting his weight from foot to foot, his heart racing, pounding inside the fellow's ribs, his teeth chattering. He dreads some grisly death. But the skin of a brave soldier never blanches. He's all control. Tense but no great fear.

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Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

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Know that the science of unveiling has no end to it, for it consists in the journey of the intellect in the stations of Majesty, Beauty, Sublimeness, Grandeur, and Holiness. . . . He to whom the mysteries of La ilaha illa'llah are revealed draws near to God, and his worship of God becomes sincere. He does not turn to anyone but to Him, nor does he have hope in or fear other than Him, nor does he see harm or benefit except as coming from Him. He abandons whosoever is not He and rids himself of inward and outward associationism (shirk).

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We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.

Henry David Thoreau

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Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom. by Ilya Kabakov

Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom.

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. by Henry Ward Beecher

Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.

Henry Ward Beecher

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A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.

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Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness.

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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law... by Immanuel Kant

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

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Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today. by Horace

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

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A man that is afraid is never a man. by Henry Ward Beecher

A man that is afraid is never a man.

Henry Ward Beecher

Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. by Henry David Thoreau

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

Henry David Thoreau

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When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars, by Horace

When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars,

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I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.

Henry David Thoreau

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If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.

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Voshak's hair, a pale blond braid, which he bleached, was his trademark. It made him memorable. That's how the slavers operated. They adopted costumes and personas, trying to make themselves larger-than-life and hoping to inspire fear. They counted on that fear. One could fight a man, but nobody could fight a nightmare.

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To be ones self and unafraid whether right or wrong is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

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