Fearing Quotes
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When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.
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Instead of fearing the future, I should live and enjoy the present, she told herself.
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Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.
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To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
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There is a deep contradiction in failing to enjoy life and yet fearing death when faced with it.
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Stop fearing being attacked.
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How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose - and fearing that they will make us lose?
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We do not play on Graves— Because there isn't Room— Besides—it isn't even—it slants And People come— And put a Flower on it— And hang their faces so— We're fearing that their Hearts will drop— And crush our pretty play— And so we move as far As Enemies—away— Just looking round to see how far It is—Occasionally—
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It was foolish to indulge in elaborate preconceptions: anticipation was a featherweight, doomed to compete with the inevitable, convincing bulk of reality. The trouble was that one had to face reality without knowing beforehand precisely what it was to be. One had somehow to discover and tread the hard, between the sloughs of fearing the worst and hoping for the best.
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Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
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I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.
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When I found out that coffins are padded, I stopped fearing death.
