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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.


Francis Bacon

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SIR FRANCIS BACON Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased...
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ECKHART TOLLE Do not fear death, for it is natural; but, fear the unnatural act of not living the dream.
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ROBERT FROST There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well a...
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JONATHAN EDWARDS It is not the certainty of death that we fear but more so the certainty of fear that death brings.
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Resignedly I go,
I am not so afraid of the dark night
As the f...
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MARK TWAIN Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.
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SUZY KASSEM There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
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R. L. STINE Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.
G. GORDON LIDDY The classical man's worst fear was inglorious death; the modern man's worst fear is just death
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WILLIAM MITFORD Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the ...
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MATT RIDLEY I have seen death face to face and returned to the world of living beings. I have savored the fear o...
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AKRAM ABU HAMDAN Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.
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JUDY JEFFREY The dark and the light, they exist side by side,
Sometimes overlapping, one explaining the othe...
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DEYTH BANGER I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
SAINT TERESA OF AVILA I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
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CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Your children don't have to fear you to respect you.
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GEORGE LUCAS It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
MARCUS AURELIUS It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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CHARLES FROHMAN Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.
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FRANCIS BACON A good conscience is a continual feast.
FRANCIS BACON The wisdom of our ancestors.
FRANCIS BACON Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
FRANCIS BACON Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed op...
FRANCIS BACON Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON Boldness is a child of ignorance.
FRANCIS BACON Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New.
FRANCIS BACON All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. - ...
FRANCIS BACON The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the w...
FRANCIS BACON