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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
Some people are brave, others are just too stupid to be afraid.
Some people are brave, others are just too stupid to be afraid.
We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions
in their danger.
We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions
in their danger.
It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome.
[Lat., Crux est si metuas quod vincere nequeas.]
It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome.
[Lat., Crux est si metuas quod vincere nequeas.]
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men read more
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned read more
Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turned round, walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
An aching tooth is better out than in,
To lose a rotten member is a gain.
An aching tooth is better out than in,
To lose a rotten member is a gain.
You are uneasy, . . . you never sailed with me before, I see.
You are uneasy, . . . you never sailed with me before, I see.
The clouds dispell'd, the sky resum'd her light,
And Nature stood recover'd of her fright.
But fear, read more
The clouds dispell'd, the sky resum'd her light,
And Nature stood recover'd of her fright.
But fear, the last of ills, remain'd behind,
And horrow heavy sat on every mind.