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+#+title: Famous and not-so-famous fear quotes
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+"The only thing we have to fear is fear it'self - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."----FDR - First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933
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+"One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well, to kill emotion. I don't think I shall ever feel anything again except fear. None of us can hate anymore - or love."----Graham Greene - The Confidential Agent (1939)
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+"What are fears but voices airy?
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+Whispering harm where harm is not.
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+And deluding the unwary
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+Till the fatal bolt is shot!"
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+----Wordsworth
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+"Fear - jealousy - money - revenge - and protecting someone you love."----Frederick Knott - Max Halliday, listing the five important motives for murder, Dial M for Murder (1952)
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+"What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,
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+Distill'd from limbecks foul as hell within,
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+Applying fears to hopes, and hopes to fears,
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+Still losing when I saw myself to win!"
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+----Will - Sonnets
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+"Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake."----Edgar Wallace - The Clue of the Twisted Candle (1916)
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+"- Tush! Tush! Fear little boys with bugs."----Will - The Taming of the Shrew
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+"All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears--of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, or speakingbefore a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required."----Dave Barry
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+"Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is."----German Proverb
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+"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark."---- Francis Bacon
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+"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear."--- H.P. Lovecraft
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+"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly."----Coleridge
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+"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."---Frank Herbert, Dune - Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
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+"A man who has been in danger,
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+When he comes out of it forgets his fears,
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+And sometimes he forgets his promises."
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+----Euripides - Iphigenia in Tauris (414-12 BC)
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+"He either fears his fate too much,
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+Or his deserts are small,
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+That puts it not unto the touch
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+To win or lose it all"
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+----James Graham - Marquis of Montrose
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+"I have almost forgot the taste of fears.
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+The time has been my senses would have cool'd
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+To hear a night shriek, and my fell of hair
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+Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
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+As life were in't. I have supp'd full with horrors;
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+Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,
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+Cannot once start me."
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+----Will - Macbeth
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+"Being frightened is an experience you can't buy."----Anthony Price - Sion Crossing (1984)
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+"What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope."----Publilius Syrus - Moral Sayings (1st C B.C.)
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+"Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts."----Brigitte Bardot
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+"Why are we scared to die? Do any of us remember being scared when we were born?"----Trevor Kay
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+"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."----Edgar Watson Howe - Country Town Sayings (1911)