“Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it: he that fears otherwise, gives advantage to the danger.”
From the Enchiridion (1640) of Francis Quarles.
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Speech at the Opening of the Bandung Conference
“Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”
Variant: Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.
Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 11, Finds Print of Man's Foot on the Sand.
“Your fear of letting go prevents you from letting go of your fear of letting go.”
Source: Bangkok Tattoo
“No man is so dangerous as the man who cannot decide what he fears.”
Source: Royal Assassin
“A valiant mind no deadly danger fears;”
From Reason and Affection. First published in Paradyse of Dainty Devices (1576), revised in the 1596 edition. It is also known as "Being in Love he complaineth". Published by Grosart in Miscellanies of the Fuller Worthies' Library, Vol. IV (1872)
Poems
“the most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears!”
Source: Angels & Demons
