#fear

A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing. ↗

— Elizabeth I

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I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public. ↗

— Albert Ellis

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Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries. ↗

— Yunus Emre

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She became so important to them that they wondered how they had ever managed without her in the past. And the longer she stayed with them the more indispensable she became, so indispensable in fact that their one fear was that she might some day move on. ↗

— Michael Ende

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It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. ↗

— Epictetus

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It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble. ↗

— Epicurus

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Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence. ↗

— Kjell Magne Bondevik

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Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

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The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

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It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

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