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“Where no hope is left is left no fear.”
“The human race is a race of cowards and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.”
“I a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.”
“Fear has a smell as Love does.”
“Fear can be headier than whisky once man has acquired a taste for it.”
“How does one kill fear I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart slash off its spectral head take it by the spectral throat?”
“In grief we know the worst of what we feel But who can tell the end of what we fear?”
“Horror is a feeling that cannot last long human nature is incapable of supporting it.”
“The horse does abominate the camel the mighty elephant is afraid of a mouse and they say that the lion which scorneth to turn his back upon the stoutest animal will tremble at the crowing of a cock.”
“The flocks fear the wolf the crops the storm and the trees the wind.”
“We all choke and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell.”
“Fear true fear is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable it is surely the most cruel.”
“The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes but its fears.”
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-nameless unreasoning unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.”
“It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.”
“Men who look young act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young-but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution what would be excessive in their grandfathers-are the...”
“Of all the passions fear weakens judgment most.”
“Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
“When men are ruled by fear they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.”
“Fear if allowed free rein would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men for whom only death could bring release.”
