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Quote by Joseph Conrad
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter throu

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? – Joseph Conrad

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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. – Joseph Conrad

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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. – Joseph Conrad

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The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab. – Joseph Conrad

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not. – Saadi

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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. – Francis of Assisi

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You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. – George Bernard Shaw

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For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing anothers happiness. – Aeschylus

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Education can lift individuals out of poverty and into rewarding careers. – Christine Gregoire

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Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations. – Charles de Secondat

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