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For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put into words or books.

Freedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.

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.

Freethinkers reject faith as a valid tool of knowledge. Faith is the opposite of reason because reason imposes very strict limits on what can be true, and faith has no limits at all. A Great Escape into faith is no retreat to safety. It is nothing less than surrender.

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.

Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want to climb a few steps, but really climb them.

From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?

From craving arises sorrow, from craving arises fear, but he who is freed from craving has no sorrow and certainly no fear.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

Giving up is the only sure way to fail.

Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?

God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

God has not given us the spirit of fear. That comes from the adversary.

God made in the image of Man is an imperfect master.

God is good, there is no devil but fear.

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

Gratitude is the antidote to fear.

Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.

Governments would rather spend their money on another bomber than education, and why do we fear black men when every bit of suffering in our lives has a Caucasian face attached to it?

Gratitude and fear can't stand the sight of each other.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won.

GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear

Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate; a child who fears noises becomes the man who hates them.

Happy are men who yet before they are killed Can let their veins run cold.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Have others fear you, and I will have no fear.

Having a vision for your life allows you to live out of hope, rather than out of your fears.

Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage mean we face our fears. We are able to say, 'I have fallen, but I will get up.'

Guilt and fear are a kind of rot. It spreads unless it's cleaned. And there's only one way to do that.

Have the courage to act instead of react.

"Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding up on the third shift at Flagg-Utica." Flagg-Utica was a local textile plant. Somehow, I never could figure how failing to read three chapters in my geography book about the various sorts of vegetation to be found in a tropical rain forest had anything to do with facing a life as a mill hand. But with enough guilt and fear as catalysts, you can read anything, even geography books and Deuteronomy.

Healing depends on listening with the inner ear - stopping the incessant blather, and listening. Fear keeps us chattering - fear that wells up from the past, fear of blurting out what we really fear, fear of future repercussions. It is our very fear of the future that distorts the now that could lead to a different future if we dared to be whole in the present.

He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous.

He dares not concern himself with the future for fear of disturbing the present.

He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he's about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero's calm and a coward's resolve to survive at any price.

Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.

Heathen, n. A benighted creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.

...heaven may be only the mind's fear of the wonders it imagines.

Heaven or Hell? You make it seem as if that's an easy choice to make. Sitting there in heaven watching others burn, and I can't do anything to help? That in itself would be hell for me. I'd be up there fighting god and his angels to let me out, so that I can come down and at least try to help. I am a moral person. Heaven is for uncaring Hypocrites.

He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!

He is wisest, who only gives, True to himself, the best he can: Who drifting on the winds of praise, The inward monitor obeys. And with the boldness that confuses fear Takes in the crowded sail, and lets his conscience steer.

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

He who fears not, is to be feared.