There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Apprehension is natural, but it must not be concluded that it is a threat. Certainly not.
When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the point of paralysis by seeming or imagined portents.
Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.
Fear is the foundation of safety.
The reason we're so dangerous is because we're totally harmless.
Fear warps our understanding of reality and even our ability to see reality clearly.
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