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61. “It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Communication, Honesty, Fear, Social Dynamics, Consequences

62. “He who has lost all hope has also lost all fear.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Hope, Fear, Loss, Emotional State, Resilience

63. “Those who own much have much to fear.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Wealth, Fear, Possessions, Simplicity, Attachment

64. “My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Shame, Prayer, Fear, Vulnerability, Personal Struggle

65. “At the end of the day I hasten in fear lest thy gate to be shut; but I find that yet there is time.”

Rabindranath Tagore

Fear, Opportunity, Hope, Spirituality, Reflection

66. “We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.”

W.H. Auden

Fear, Resistance To Change, Suffering, Personal Truth, Existential Struggle

67. “Behind you swiftly the figure comes softly, The spot on your skin is a shocking disease.”

W.H. Auden

Fear, Disease, Mortality, Poetic Imagery, Human Vulnerability

68. “Lost in a haunted wood, Children afraid of the night Who have never been happy or good.”

W.H. Auden

Childhood, Fear, Innocence, Darkness, Moral Ambiguity

69. “For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?”

W.H. Auden

Memory, Loneliness, Human Need, Recognition, Fear

70. “Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life.”

W.H. Auden

Sleep, Death, Life, Fear, Human Nature

71. “I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade.”

W.H. Auden

Uncertainty, Fear, Disillusionment, Urban Life, Historical Reflection

72. “My will had gone and I feared to be alone, lest the winds of circumstance, or power, or lust, blow my empty soul away.”

T.E. Lawrence

Willpower, Solitude, Fear, Emptiness, Vulnerability

73. “The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.”

Jack Kerouac

Emotions, Contrast, Joy, Fear, Life Experiences

74. “I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?”

Jack Kerouac

Youth, Mortality, Fear, Life, Philosophy

75. “I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy.”

Thomas Jefferson

Hope, Optimism, Fear, Resilience, Perspective

76. “Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal government is our servant, not our master!”

Thomas Jefferson

Government, Fear, Tyranny, Freedom, Civic Engagement

77. “My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just.”

Thomas Jefferson

God, Justice, Morality, Fear, Personal Reflection

78. “My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.”

Thomas Jefferson

Aging, Fear, Mortality, Life Philosophy, Personal Reflection

79. “I don't dare start thinking in the morning. I don't dare start thinking in the morning. If I thought thoughts in bed, Them thoughts would bust my head – So I don't dare start thinking in the morning.”

Langston Hughes

Fear, Anxiety, Overthinking, Mental Barriers, Psychological Struggle

80. “All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.”

John Milton

Hope, Fear, Grace, Despair, Damnation

81. “Fear of change perplexes monarchs.”

John Milton

Change, Power, Leadership, Fear, Politics

82. “Where no hope is left, is left no fear.”

John Milton

Hope, Fear, Despair, Human Condition, Emotional State

83. “I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.”

John Milton

Death, Hell, Fear, Power Of Words, Cosmic Response

84. “In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.”

John Milton

Change, Fear, Power, Darkness, Political Upheaval

85. “O Conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me, out of which I find no way, from deep to deeper plunged.”

John Milton

Conscience, Fear, Moral Anguish, Inner Turmoil, Self-reflection

86. “Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear.”

John Milton

Hope, Fear, Emotions, Farewell, Human Condition

87. “The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.”

John Milton

Fear, Nature, Darkness, Journey, Danger

88. “Three quiet days. This hell fiend is like a cat with a mouse. She lets me loose only to pounce upon me again. I am never so frightened as when every thing is still.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Fear, Anticipation, Torment, Stillness, Psychological Warfare

89. “That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Fear, Knowledge, Mystery, Psychology, Human Nature

90. “Where there is no imagination there is no horror.”

Arthur Conan Doyle

Imagination, Horror, Creativity, Fear, Psychology

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