"Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

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Fear always springsfrom ignorance.
More Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
"I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know ...
"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
"When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in ...
"Fear always springs from ignorance.
"All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.
"Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions.
"If I cannot brag of knowing something then I brag of not knowing it at any rate brag.