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Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship

You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernal, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart one day, and then the rough burr will fall off.

There’s such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I’m such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn’t be half so interesting.

Well, I don’t want to be anyone but myself, even if I go uncomforted by diamonds all my life

I’m not a bit changed--not really. I’m only just pruned down and branched out. The real me--back here--is just the same.

If you have no confidence in self you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence you have won even before you have started.

To the hopes of the hostile, the fears of the timid, and the doubts of the anxious actual experience has given the conclusive reply.

Instead of denying these fears, declare them, say them out loud, admit them, give them the credit they deserve.

I’d subscribe to the belief that we’re all destined to have to do the thing we fear the most anyway.

Life is not a popularity contest. Be brave, take the hill but first, answer the question, “What is my hill?”

Fear is more importunate and insupportable than death itself

Your fears must be mastered before you can win in any worthwhile undertaking in life.

But instinct is something which transcends knowledge.

Every year if not every day we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

No one will insist upon your rights while you yourself doubt that you have any.

Uncertainty gives fear a chance to get in its deadly work on the imagination and make cowards of us.

When the need comes, there is a power deep within us that answers the call.

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity and the herald of all revolutions.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman.

These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale, but surely, surely, a great rich country like ours will see that those who are dependent on us are properly provided for.

We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.

We took risks, we knew we took them; things have come out against us, and therefore we have no cause for complaint, but bow to the will of Providence, determined still to do our best to the last.