Quote by Thomas Carlyle
The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he

The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then. – Thomas Carlyle

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. – Thomas Carlyle

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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. – Thomas Carlyle

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Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. – Baruch Spinoza

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I think interviews can be fine. Its just theres this terrible fear of coming off wrongly or saying something that gets taken out of context. – Nicholas Hoult

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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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Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result. – Andrew Jackson

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