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October 23, 2012 by kevinstilley

Fear – select quotes

He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure.
~ James Allen

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
~ Karle Wilson Baker

There lives in each of us a hero, awaiting a call to action.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

If anything terrifies me, I must try to conquer it.
~ Francis Chichester

Quem metuunt oderunt, quem quisque odit periise expetit. [Whom men fear, they hate; whom a man hates he wishes dead.]
~ Quintus Ennius, in Ex fabulis incertis

Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.
~ Kahlil Gibran

There is no fear of judgment for the man who judges himself according to the Word of God.
~Howard Hendricks

Let me assert my firm belief, that the only thing to fear is fear itself.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The terror we fear is often empty, but nevertheless it causes real misery.
~ Johann Schiller, Piccolomini, act 5

The man bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.
~ Talmud, Shir ha-Shirim Rabbah to 2, 3

Do the thing you fear, and fear will die.
~ Unknown

Fear not tomorrow, God is already there.
~ Unknown

The fear of God can deliver from the fear of man.
~ Unknown

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
~ The Bible, Joshua 1:9

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December 21, 2008 by kevinstilley

H.G. Wells – Select Quotes

Man is an inhabitant of a thin rind on a negligible detached blob of matter, belonging to one of the millions of stars, in one among millions of island universes.

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June 6, 2008 by kevinstilley

The Depravity of Man – Select Quotes

Depravity of man

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Eighty per cent of mankind is stuff to fill graves with.
~ Ford Madox Ford, in Esquire magazine, August 1966

Among the people there are killers who have not yet shed blood, and thieves who have stolen nothing, and liars who have so far told the truth.
~ Kahlil Gibran

Man’s nature is made up of four elements, which produce in him four attributes, namely, the beastly, the brutal, the satanic, and the divine. In man there is something of the pig, the dog, the devil, and the saint.
~ Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali, in The Main Problems of Abu Nasr Al-Paraba

I am quite sure that (bar one) I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being–that is enough for me; he can’t be any worse.
~ Mark Twain, in Harper Magazine, Sept. 1899

Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very, very best he is a sort of low-grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time his is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the “noblest work of God.”
~ Mark Twain, in Letters from the Earth

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