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“Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.”

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Eugene Field was an American writer born on September 2, 1850, and died on November 4, 1895. He is renowned as a prominent children's literature author, known for his warm and imaginative works. more

“I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I am so made that worry and anxiety are sand in the machinery of life; faith is oil. I live better by faith and confidence than by fear and doubt and anxiety. In anxiety and worry my being is gasping for breath - these are not my native air. But in faith and confidence I breath freely - these are my native air.”

Made Fear Worry Doubt Air Land Anxiety Breaths Oil Sand Native Machinery Native Land Anxiety And Worry

Author:E. Stanley Jones

“Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire.”

“Lord, I do fear Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year My soul is all but out of me-let fall No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call.”

World Years Made Soul Beautiful Fall Fear Lord Bird My Soul Burning Leafs

Author:Edna St. Vincent Millay

“No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.”

Men Kind War Spirit Fear Break Power Tyranny Dread No Fear Peril Famine No War

Author:Edgar S. Brightman

“I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear. Nothing lately has unsettled my party and raised my fears as much as your editorial, on Thanksgiving Day, suggesting that employees should be required to state their beliefs in order to hold their jobs. The idea is inconsistent with our constitutional theory and has been stubbornly opposed by watchful men since the early days of the Republic.”

Source: The Letters of E. B. White

“Freedom from fear and injustice and oppression will be ours only in the measure that men who value such freedom are ready to sustain its possession - to defend it against every thrust from within or without.”

Men Values Fear Ready Injustice Possession Oppression Thrust Injustice And Oppression

Book:Crusade in Europe

Source: Crusade in Europe

“The world fears a new experience more than it fears anything. Because a new experience displaces so many old experiences. . . . The world doesn't fear a new idea. It can pigeon-hole any idea. But it can't pigeon-hole a real new experience.”

World Ideas Real Fear Holes New Ideas Pigeons New Experiences

Book:Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence

Source: Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence

“A funeral is for those left behind. Sometimes, one wonders if the weeping is more out of fear for ourselves than it is sympathy for the deceased.”

Ifs Sometimes Left Fear Behinds Wonder Funeral Left Behind Weeping Deceased

Author:Ming-Dao Deng

“It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they possess, that no one would believe it without having seen it. Of anything they have, if you ask them for it, they never say no; rather they invite the person to share it, and show as much love as if they were giving their hearts.”

Ifs Giving Firsts Believe Heart Persons Has Beens Shows Asks Belief Lost Fear Share Letters Invites Printed Scenery Much Love Americana

Author:Christopher Columbus

“Since fear is mostly about ignorance, the best part is that it's as temporary as you choose.”

Fear Ignorance Temporary You Choose Philanthropy

Author:Christine Comaford-Lynch

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