"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 ...

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Fear always springs from ignorance.
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"Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
"Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
"Fear always springsfrom ignorance.
"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 ...
"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.
"Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.