The human brain is capable of only one strong emotion at a time, and if it be filled with curiosity or scientific enthusiasm, there is no room for fear.
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The Brown Hand
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Oh, haggard mind, groping darkly through the past; incapable of detaching itself from the miserable present; dragging its heavy chain of care through imaginary feasts and revels, and scenes of awful pomp; seeking but a moment's rest among the long-forgotten haunts of childhood, and the resorts of yesterday; and dimly finding fear and horror everywhere!
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Martin Chuzzlewit
by
Charles Dickens
I am never afraid of what I know.
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Black Beauty
by
Anna Sewell
"Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."
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Measure for Measure
by
William Shakespeare
Dame Ermyntrude Loring, wife, and mother of warriors, was herself a formidable figure. Tall and gaunt, with hard craggy features and intolerant dark eyes, even her snow-white hair and stooping back could not entirely remove the sense of fear which she inspired in those around her. Her thoughts and memories went back to harsher times, and she looked upon the England around her as a degenerate and effeminate land which had fallen away for the old standard of knightly courtesy and valor.
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Sir Nigel
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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The Fall of the House of Usher
by
Edgar Allan Poe
By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
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Moby Dick
by
Herman Melville
Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Moby Dick
by
Herman Melville
Instead of trying to still his fears, he encouraged them, with that superstitious impression which clings to us all, that if we expect evil very strongly it is the less likely to come.
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Silas Marner
by
George Eliot
"Well," said she, after a pause, "if you despise my love, I must see what can be done with fear. You smile, but the day will come when you will come screaming to me for pardon."
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The Parasite
by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle