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Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.
Fear
John Maynard Keynes

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Courage
King Jr. Martin Luther

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The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
Bores and Boredom
Jean De La Bruyere

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Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.
Belief
Jean De La Fontaine

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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Faults
Jean De La Fontaine

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Hope and fear are inseparable.
Hope
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
Motivation
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
Fear
Lucius C. Lactantius

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The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
Fashion
Charles Lamb

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Seek not happiness too greedily, and be not fearful of unhappiness.
Happiness
Lao-Tzu

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Books - Reading
Harper Lee

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Work is life, you know, and without it, there's nothing but fear and insecurity.
Work
John Lennon

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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
Grief
C. S. Lewis

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I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.
Ambiguity
Abraham Lincoln

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With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.
Laughter
Abraham Lincoln

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Fear God and work hard.
Purpose
David Livingstone

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We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
Fear
Titus Livy

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When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.
Compassion
Haniel Long

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Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind.
Fear
H. P. Lovecraft

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They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak.
Character
James Russell Lowell

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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
Boldness
F. L. Lucan

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Great fear is concealed under daring.
Fear
F. L. Lucan

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How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
Death and Dying
George Macdonald

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It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
Fear
Niccolo Machiavelli

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Leaders and Leadership
Niccolo Machiavelli

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun