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“The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.”

Men Fear Objects He Man Hero Overcoming Terror Foe

Book:The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

“Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die. But, once realise what the true object is in life that it is not pleasure, not knowledge, not even fame itself, 'that last infirmity of noble minds' but that it is the development of character, the rising to a higher, nobler, purer standard, the building-up of the perfect Man and then, so long as we feel that this is going on, and will (we trust) go on for evermore, death has for us no terror; it is not a shadow, but a light; not an end, but a beginning!”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)

“An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror.”

Eye Form Black Middle Objects Cold Mad Terror Expected His Eyes Shops Gloomy Unfinished Coffins Spooky

Book:Oliver Twist

Source: Oliver Twist

“These are the poems of a traveler and a lover who feels both the terror of time passing and the consolation of eternity. From such tension spring lovely poetic objects, ready for intelligent use.”

Feels Use Objects Ready Lovers Spring Eternity Intelligent Terror Lovely Passing Passings Tension Poetic Traveler Consolation Time Passing Time Passes

Author:Andrei Codrescu

“Let our object be - our country, our whole country, and nothing but our country. And by the blessing of God, may that country itself become a vast and splendid monument - not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of Peace, and of Liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever.”

World May Country Whole Liberty Forever Objects Blessing Terror Oppression Our Country Admiration Splendid Monument

Book:An Address Delivered at the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843

Source: An Address Delivered at the Completion of the Bunker Hill Monument, June 17, 1843

“Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror!”

Looks Objects Revolution Office Ambition Election Terror American Revolution

Author:John Adams