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So full of artless jealousy is guilt,It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

– William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5

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Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One

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Dolendi modus, timendi non item. (To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.)

– Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles

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A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

– Aristotle, unknown

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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

– Shakespeare

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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

– Isaac Asimov

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Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

– J. R. R. Tolkien

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...And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land. So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man.

– Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Our doubts are traitors,And make us lose the good we oft might winBy fearing to attempt.

– William Shakespeare

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So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.

– William Shakespeare

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Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

– Plato

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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

– Elbert Hubbard

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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it we respect that of others, without fearing it.

– Thomas Jefferson

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We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

– Lewis Thomas

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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

– Antoine Rivarol

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Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

– Peter T. McIntyre

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The remarkable thing about fearing God is that when you fear God you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God you fear everything else.

– Oswald Chambers

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