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My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

The thing that impresses me most about this country is its hopefulness. It is this which distinguishes it from Europe, where there is hopeless depression and fear.

The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance.

In doing one's work primarily for God, the fear of undue restriction is put, sooner or later, out of the question. He pays me and He pays me well. He pays me and He will not fail to pay me. He pays me not merely for the rule of thumb task, which is all that men recognize, but to everything else I bring to my job in the way of industry, good intentions and cheerfulness. If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, as St. Paul says, we may depend upon it that He loveth a cheerful worker; and where we can cleave the way to His love there we find His endless generosity.

Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.

Fear that makes faith may break faith.

Do not let fear confine your life Inside a shell of doubt; A turtle never moves until His head is sticking out.

DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.

A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions.

But what are pity, conscience, or fear To the brazen pair, compared With the living sorcery Of their hot embraces?

Let them hate me provided they fear me

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love.

Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself.

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.

The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. . . . The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can't pigeon-hole a real new experience.

It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they possess, that no one would believe it without having seen it. Of anything they have, if you ask them for it, they never say no; rather they invite the person to share it, and show as much love as if they were giving their hearts.

A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it is sympathy for the deceased.

Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession - to defend it against every thrust from within or without.