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No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

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There is a courageous wisdom there is also a false reptile prudence the result not of caution but of fear.

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No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

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The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.