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Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

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To Be is to live with God.

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God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.

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Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

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Fear always springsfrom ignorance.

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When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in ...more

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God enters by a private door into every individual.

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Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none.

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Fear always springs from ignorance.

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He in whom the love of repose predominates will accept the first creed, the first philosophy, the first political party he meets — most likely his fat...more

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All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.

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Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions.