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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of actin

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. – Edmund Burke

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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. – Edmund Burke

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Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. – Cyril Connolly

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When a match has equal partners then I fear not. – Aeschylus

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A word does not frighten the man who, in acting, feels no fear. – Sophocles

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Those that walk with fear will always be too busy hiding. – Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife

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