Fear quotes — Page 2

Cooper Union Address, February 27, 1860. The sentence appears in Lincoln’s closing argument about opposing slavery’s spread and should not be detached into a context-free command about every disputed duty.

An Essay on Criticism; original capitalization is lightly normalized elsewhere on the site.

Political Ideals, discussion of what social institutions should make possible for individuals. Russell immediately connects self-respect with courage, hope and living by the best within oneself despite obstacles.

Character Building, “Growth,” Project Gutenberg #60484. The line sits inside a longer appeal to remember parents and others invested in the student’s success.

The Analects of Confucius, James Legge’s public-domain English translation; Book II connects moral recognition with the courage required for action.

The Masque of the Red Death, Project Gutenberg #1064. The sentence appears as the masked figure violates even Prince Prospero’s extreme masquerade conventions by embodying the Red Death; it is Gothic narration inside fiction, not a psychological law.

Enchiridion 9; Epictetus uses illness to illustrate the distinction between external limits and the will.

Enchiridion 5 in George Long’s translation; the passage distinguishes events from the opinions that disturb us.

The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, saying XVI, Hastings Crossley translation.

The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, saying XIV, in the passage comparing life’s difficulties with enduring the Olympic festival.

The Lost Prince; Project Gutenberg #384. Marco is trapped during the fictional mission; the line describes literary courage and does not advise ignoring real-world danger.

My Bondage and My Freedom; Douglass is recounting one of the practical struggles through which persistence accompanied his pursuit of greater freedom and independence.

Narrative, Chapter VI; Douglass recalls hearing Hugh Auld argue that literacy would make him unfit for slavery.

Narrative, Chapter X; the line follows Douglass’s physical resistance to Edward Covey and precedes his resolve never again to be a slave in fact.

The Invisible Man, Chapter IX, “Mr. Thomas Marvel,” Project Gutenberg #5230. Griffin tells Thomas Marvel that “An invisible man is a man of power” while coercing the frightened stranger into becoming his helper; Chapter X begins immediately after this exchange. The line remains fictional character speech within Wells’s critique of Griffin’s power fantasy rather than a general endorsement of domination.

The Story of My Life; Keller reflects on what adversity can teach without pretending that suffering itself is desirable.

Ghosts, Act II, R. Farquharson Sharp public-domain translation, Project Gutenberg #2467. Mrs. Alving says “And we are so miserably afraid of the light, all of us” immediately after describing inherited “old dead ideas” and beliefs as ghosts. The light is a dramatic metaphor within a conflict over family, duty and conventional belief, not a clinical claim.

Isaiah 41:10 in the King James Version; opening reassurance of the verse.

Peter Pan / Peter and Wendy, Project Gutenberg #16. Peter says the line while stranded on Marooners’ Rock as the water rises; it is fictional character speech in a perilous scene, not advice about death or risk-taking.

How We Think (1910), Chapter VIII, “Judgment: The Interpretation of Facts,” section 1, printed page 106, Project Gutenberg #37423. Dewey says the thinker must choose among candidate meanings for a perplexing situation and therefore accepts risk; the prudent thinker selects warily and remains answerable to later confirmation or frustration. This is part of Dewey’s historical educational/logical account of reflective judgment, not a modern decision-science finding.

The Mountains of California, immediately after Muir’s comparison of mountain hazards with the risks of home.

The Mountains of California; the surrounding paragraph discusses hazards in the mountains and fear of leaving home.

Joshua 1:9 in the King James Version; excerpt from the commission to Joshua.

2 Timothy 1:7 in the King James Version; the verse contrasts fear with power, love, and disciplined-mindedness.

Matthew 6:34 in the King James Version; the opening sentence is quoted here.

Psalm 46:10 in the King James Version; the verse places stillness and trust inside a psalm about turmoil and refuge.

Psalm 56:3 in the King James Version.

Little Women, Chapter 44, “My Lord and Lady,” Project Gutenberg #514. Amy March Laurence says “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship” while discussing her new married life with Laurie. This exact-contraction record and the older expanded “I am not afraid...” catalog variant represent the same underlying fictional passage.

Meditations, Book VII, section 61, George Long translation; the full sentence emphasizes readiness for sudden and unexpected onsets.

Meditations, Book VIII, section 49, George Long translation.

Meditations, Book IV, in George Long’s translation.

What Is Man?, Old Man describing the imagined timid soldier in battle; the example analyzes how one learned pressure may overpower another fear.

A Vindication of the Rights of Men, opening pages; the sentence immediately follows her statement that she contends for the rights of men and liberty of reason.

Essays of Montaigne, Book I, Chapter XXIII, ‘Various Events from the Same Counsel,’ Charles Cotton translation edited by William Carew Hazlitt (1877); Project Gutenberg Volume 04 #3584 / Complete Essays #3600. Montaigne argues that excessive security-minded distrust can destroy the courage required for noble action; the reviewed direct evidence is the matching Wikisource chapter transcription.

“The Last Leaf,” in The Trimmed Lamp, Project Gutenberg #3707. Johnsy speaks while seriously ill; the story rejects her fatalistic belief and later centers care, sacrifice and renewed desire to live. This is fiction, not health advice.

1 Corinthians 16:13 in the King James Version.

2 Corinthians 4:8 in the King James Version; opening contrast in a sequence about affliction and endurance.

Romans 8:31 in the King James Version.

Apology, Jowett translation; Socrates says he would continue practicing philosophy even if acquittal were conditioned on silence.

Proverbs 28:1 in the King James Version; concluding comparison of the verse.

Psalm 27:14 in the King James Version.

Psalm 31:24 in the King James Version; addressed to those who hope in the Lord.

The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, saying 595, D. Lyman Jr. translation (1856).

The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, saying 63, D. Lyman Jr. translation (1856).

The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, saying 40, D. Lyman Jr. translation (1856).

The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, saying 156, D. Lyman Jr. translation (1856).

The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, saying 586, D. Lyman Jr. translation (1856).

The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, saying 669, D. Lyman Jr. translation (1856).

The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, saying 206, D. Lyman Jr. translation (1856).

Fruit-Gathering, poem LXXIX, translated by Tagore from Bengali; Project Gutenberg #6522. The line is explicitly prayer language and should not be read as advice to ignore real safety precautions.

Essays, First Series, essay VIII, ‘Heroism,’ Project Gutenberg #2944. ‘Self-trust is the essence of heroism’ occurs as Emerson defines the heroic soul's defiance of falsehood and wrong. It remains Transcendentalist moral and conduct-of-life rhetoric rather than a clinical personality measure or empirical prediction of courageous behavior.

Memories and Portraits, in Stevenson’s reflection on graves and failed lives; Project Gutenberg #381. The sentence is literary commemoration, not a claim that every defeat is heroic.

If—, third stanza; the surrounding passage describes losing one’s winnings and beginning again.

If—, first stanza; the following line qualifies self-confidence with fairness toward doubters.

The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), first-edition scholar passage, Wikisource scan leaf 28. “There mark what Ills the Scholar’s Life assail” is followed by “Toil, Envy, Want, the Garret, and the Jail.” The first-edition transcription uses a comma after “assail”; this collection’s semicolon is a retained punctuation normalization. The couplet remains satirical literary context rather than a forecast of every scholar’s life.

Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 13, section 4, Richard M. Gummere translation. 'We suffer more often in imagination than in reality' occurs in 'On Groundless Fears' as Seneca distinguishes feared possibilities from harms that have actually arrived. It remains Roman Stoic moral counsel rather than modern anxiety-treatment or clinical evidence.

Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 13, section 3, Richard M. Gummere translation.

Letter 104 discusses travel, anxiety, and the need to change the mind rather than merely the location.

Letter 30 reflects on death, courage, and the completion of a life.

Letter 74 examines virtue, fortune, and the steadiness required when external conditions change.

Letter 78 discusses illness, endurance, and the courage required to continue living under hardship.

Citizenship in a Republic; this short clause comes from the “man in the arena” passage.

Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter IX, “The Everlasting Yea,” printed page 156 / Wikisource scan leaf 188 in The Works of Thomas Carlyle, Centenary Edition, Vol. I (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1896). “Doubt of any sort cannot be removed except by Action” appears inside Teufelsdröckh’s spiritual conversion and Carlyle’s claim that conviction becomes meaningful through conduct. This collection preserves the fictional-philosophical voice and religious setting rather than presenting the line as uncomplicated Carlyle autobiography or a modern psychological rule.

The English Mail-Coach, represented by Project Gutenberg #6359 in the volume The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc. The sentence follows the near-collision / dream-fugue sequence and is highly literary first-person prose, not an objective report of measured time.

Leviathan, Part I, Chapter XIII, Project Gutenberg #3207. “And the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” closes Hobbes’s list of consequences in the hypothetical condition where there is no common power able to keep people in awe. It remains a seventeenth-century political-philosophy argument about the state of nature, not a blanket empirical description of ordinary social life.

Opening of The American Crisis No. I; Paine addresses perseverance during a difficult stage of the American Revolution.

The Will to Believe, essay “The Will to Believe”; Project Gutenberg #26659. James is contrasting the risk of being mistaken with the cost of refusing every uncertain intellectual venture.

Henry IV, Part 1, Act V Scene 4; reviewed against the 1917 Yale Shakespeare edition edited by Samuel B. Hemingway, printed page 110 / scan leaf 124. Falstaff says 'The better part of valour is discretion' after counterfeiting death during the battle and immediately boasts that this discretion saved his life. It remains comic fictional self-justification rather than a universal rule for courage or risk.

Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene 2, in the 1919 Yale Shakespeare edition edited by Lawrence Mason. Caesar tells Calpurnia, ‘Cowards die many times before their deaths; / The valiant never taste of death but once,’ while rejecting her fear and deciding to go out. The line remains Caesar’s dramatic reasoning, not Shakespeare’s direct personal counsel.

Measure for Measure, Lucio to Isabella. The retained modern locator is Act I, Scene 4; the represented 1623 First Folio witness, reviewed through the 1910 Methuen facsimile transcription on Wikisource, labels the same scene Act I, Scene V (Scena Quinta). Lucio urges Isabella to test her ability to plead for Claudio rather than let doubt prevent the attempt. This is fictional dramatic speech, not Shakespeare speaking autobiographically or a universal psychological law.