For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits.
The thing I fear most is fear.
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If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.
Far better it is to dare might things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they in the gray twilight that knows nor victory nor defeat.
Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.
Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.
Remember your dreams and fight for them. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible:the fear of failure.
