Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Fear Quotes, Generosity Quotes

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

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I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Fear Quotes

It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the master work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Fear Quotes , Procrastination Quotes

When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the Tao, warheads are stockpiled outside the cities. There is no greater illusion than fear, no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Country Quotes , Fear Quotes

Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Fear Quotes , Night Quotes

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Fear Quotes , Philosophy Quotes

If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Running Quotes , Fear Quotes

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Revenge Quotes , Fear Quotes

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Fear Quotes

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Fear Quotes , Atheism Quotes

It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Fear Quotes , Fearless Quotes

Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts.

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Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Peace Quotes , Fear Quotes

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.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Fear Quotes , Real Quotes

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.

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He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

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Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Fear Quotes , Soul Quotes

Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.

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Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Fear Quotes , Attention Quotes

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Fear Quotes , Self Esteem Quotes

Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Fear Quotes , Mean Quotes

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.

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