“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
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“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
“Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.”
“Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.”
“Only the contemptible fear contempt.”
“Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.”
“It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.”
“If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.”
“The thing I fear most is fear.”
“This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.”
“Scalded cats fear even cold water.”
“For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
“A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear.”
“Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.”
“Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.”
“Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.”
“Do not fear mistakes. There are none.”
“While there's life, there's fear.”
“It is a base thing for a man among the people not to obey those in command. Never in a state can the laws be well administered when fear does not stand firm.”
“Love casts out fear, but we have to get over the fear in order to get close enough to love them.”
“When a match has equal partners then I fear not.”
“Excessive fear is always powerless.”
“If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.”
“The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.”