Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
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Desire is the essence of a man.
It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
Man is a social animal.
Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
If something is wrong, fix it now. But train yourself not to worry, worry fixes nothing!
Fear gives intelligence even to fools.
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.
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.
He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.
Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will sink out of sight.
I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.
The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.
Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.
Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have.
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.
God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us — in the dreariest and most dreaded moments — can see a possibility of hope.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
While there's life, there's hope.
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.