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It occurred to me at once that Harris had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him.

My sensations as we approached what I supposed might be 'a field of battle' were anything but agreeable.

But if you want to change the world, don’t be afraid of the circuses.

If you want to change the world sometimes you have to slide down the obstacle head first.

If you want to change the world, you must be your very best in the darkest moment.

So, if you want to change the world, don’t back down from the sharks.

There are a lot of sharks in the world. If you hope to complete the swim you will have to deal with them.

It is the pang of parting, the unloosing our grasp, the breaking asunder some strong tie, the leaving some cherished purpose unfulfilled, that creates the repugnance to go

Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end.

The love of life, then, is an habitual attachment, not an abstract principle.

The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.

There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern--why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?

Limited as are the powers which have been granted, still enough have been granted to constitute a despotism if concentrated in one of the departments.

These, then, are my last words to you: Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

The powers of patronage and rule which would have been exercised, under the President, over a vast and populous and naturally wealthy region are greater than, unless under extreme necessity, I should be willing to intrust to any one man.

Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

My household-gods plant a terrible fixed foot, and are not rooted up without blood.

Not childhood alone, but the young man till thirty, never feels practically that he is mortal.

The absolute power of this distant old master had touched my young spirit with but the point of its cold, cruel iron, and left me something to brood over after the play and in moments of repose.

The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin.

Want of a common judge with authority, puts all men in a state of nature: force without right, upon a man's person, makes a state of war

Where-ever law ends, tyranny begins, if the law be transgressed to another's harm

Fears vanish as soon as one is fairly free in the wilderness.

it is hazardous to discourage thought, hope and imagination; that fear breeds repression; that repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable government

I try to scare myself at least once a day.