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One of the fears of having too much work is not having time to observe. And once you get recognised, there is nowhere for you to look any more. You can't sit on a night bus and watch it all happen.
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Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward.
The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983) -
People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.
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People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
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Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 38 -
Poetry is the way we help give name to the nameless so it can be thought. The farthest horizons of our hopes and fears are cobbled by our poems, carved from the rock experiences of our daily lives.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 37 -
Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
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Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals.
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
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Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.
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Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!
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Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
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See yourself confronting your fears in your mind's eye and handling those fears like a champ.
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That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.
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The curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1943) -
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
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The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.
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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.
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