Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
[Lat., Timor non est diuturnus magister officii.]

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.
[Lat., Timor non est diuturnus magister officii.]

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.

Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby.

His frown was full of terror, and his voice
Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe
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His frown was full of terror, and his voice
Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe
As left him not, till penitence had won
Lost favor back again, and clos'd the breach.

I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy
den, and none returning.
[Lat., Quia ne read more

I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy
den, and none returning.
[Lat., Quia ne vestigia terrent
Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrosum.]

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I read more

I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.

To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.

To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.