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“Fear is the most damnable damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.”
“Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty.”
“Fear is like fire. If controlled it will help you if uncontrolled it will rise up and destroy you. Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them ...”
“To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is in fact the consuming illness of our time.”
“Fear is an acid which is pumped into one's atmosphere. It causes mental moral and spiritual asphyxiation and sometimes death death to energy and all growth.”
“O how vain and vile a passion is this fear! What base uncomely things it makes men do.”
“If a man harbors any sort of fear it percolates through all his thinking damages his personality makes him landlord to a ghost.”
“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”
“Where fear is happiness is not.”
“We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good true and serious.”
“The craven's fear is but selfishness like his merriment.”
“We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one fear of the dark to another of physical pain to a third of public ridicule to a fourth of poverty to a fifth of loneliness ... for all of us our p...”
“If your desires be endless your cares and fears will be so too.”
“We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.”
“Fear born of that stern matron Responsibility.”
“There is nothing in the universe that I fear but that I shall not know all my duty or fail to do it.”
“Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain whether of our worth or worthlessness we are almost impervious to fear.”
“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may req...”
“Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom...”
