George Eliot Quotes About Fear
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You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing.
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To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.
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We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.
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I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
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Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.
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It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.
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