Now is a bearable burden. What buckles the back is the added weight of the past's mistakes and the future's fears.
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The Big Time
by
Fritz Leiber
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.
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Dune
by
Frank Herbert
To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.
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Villette
by
Charlotte Bronte
I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.
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Jane Eyre
by
Charlotte Bronte
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
~
Invictus
by
William Ernest Henley
Laughter is poison to fear.
~
A Game of Thrones
by
George R. R. Martin
He found that he was still not at all certain that he was doing any good, aside from providing the drug of religious hope to timorous folk frightened of hell-fire and afraid to walk alone.
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Elmer Gantry
by
Sinclair Lewis
"Come when they may, they shall not find us skulking and hiding, as if we feared to take our portion of the light of day, and left it all to them."
~
Barnaby Rudge
by
Charles Dickens
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
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Vivian Grey
by
Benjamin Disraeli
Something plucked at my heart and made me feel afraid.
~
The Willows
by
Algernon Blackwood