We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often de

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. – Charles Caleb Colton

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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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To fight fear, act. To increase fear – wait, put off postpone. – David Joseph Schwartz

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In this life struggle, here I am among you fully cognizant that a true believer has no fear of what God has ordained for him. Those who are visited by fear live only for their present, under the illusion that the world began with them and will end with their departure. – King Hussein I

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