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If you are a brave man you will do nothing: if you are fearful you may do much, for none but cowards have need to prove their bravery.

Man is but a reed, weakest in nature, but a reed which thinks.

Whatsoever thwarts, or puts me out of my way, brings death into my mind.

Love is a terrible word, and I should blush to death if anything but a letter accused me on't.

Will you not go back, and you will see clearer when you have laid aside fear?

Nothing stands between man and his highest ideals and every desire of his heart, but doubt and fear.

Fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.

Beside, that the ills which he fears he may suffer, he suffers in the very fear of them.

Fear proceeds from the same things when absent which occasion grief when present.

Instead of denying these fears, declare them, say them out loud, admit them, give them the credit they deserve.

Whoever expects punishment already suffers it, and whoever has deserved it expects it.

the immoderate desire for each, implanting a most immoderate fear of losing them, makes the enjoyment of them weak and wavering, like a flame under the influence of a wind

Futurity is the proper abode of hope and fear, with all their train and progeny of subordinate apprehensions and desires.

A man must so train his habits as to rely upon his own powers and depend upon his own courage in moments of emergency.

It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him.

My sensations as we approached what I supposed might be 'a field of battle' were anything but agreeable.

The love of life, then, is an habitual attachment, not an abstract principle.

There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern--why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?