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Quote by Edmund Burke
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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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. – Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
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Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldnt, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives. – Ivo Andric

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My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten. – Evita Peron

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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. – Andre Gide

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There is no passion so contagious as that of fear. – Michel de Montaigne

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