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Thomas Brooks

When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger. A man had need to fear this most of all, that he fears not at all.

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Jean de La Bruyère

We believe easily what we fear or what we desire.

Character | Desire | Fear |

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Wilhelm Büchsel, fully Wilhelm Karl von Gotthilf Büchsel

Orthodoxy can be learnt from others; living faith must be a matter of personal experience.

Character | Experience | Faith |

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Christian Nestell Bovee

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

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Christian Nestell Bovee

Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. In the assurance of strength; there is strength, and they; are the; weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

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Shalom Cohen

A brilliant mind without faith is like a beautiful face without eyes.

Character | Faith | Mind | Wisdom |

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Sri Chinmoy, born Chinmoy Kumar Ghose

The meaning of life is to become inseparably one with God the transcendental Bliss and God the universal Peace. The meaning of life is to achieve unconditional self-giving and a self-giving will... complete faith in oneself and a birthless and deathless faith in God. Life is love... Life needs a dream and a goal... Transcendence is the glorious beginning of human perfection... Who am I? I am my life’s unfinished God-manifestation.

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Paul Chatfield, pseudonym for Horace Smith

Humanity is much more shown in our conduct towards animals, where we are irresponsible except to heaven, than towards our fellow-creatures, where we are restrained by the laws, by public opinion, and fear of retaliation.

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William Ellery Channing

A religion giving dark views of God, and infusing superstitious fear of innocent enjoyment, instead of aiding sober habits, will, by making men abject and sad, impair their moral force and prepare them for intemperance as a refuge from depression or despair.

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Cyril Connolly, fully Cyril Vernon Connolly

We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear is lurking.

Character | Fear | Hate |

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Euripedes NULL

No man on earth is truly free. All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

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Helen Gahagan Douglas

Character isn’t inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky, fully Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoevsky or Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoevski

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Character | Fear | Study |

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Tyron Edwards

Duty performed gives clearness and firmness to faith, and faith thus strengthened through duty becomes the more assured and satisfying soul.

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Salvador Dalí, fully Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Character | Fear | Perfection |

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Benjamin Franklin

To God we owe fear and love; to our neighbours justice and character; to our selves prudence and sobriety.

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Owen Feltham

Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid.

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