Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If every conceivable precaution is taken at first, one is often too discouraged to proceed at all.
Following our inner guidance may feel risky and frightening at first, because we are no longer playing it safe, doing what we 'should' do, pleasing others, following rules, or deferring to outside authority.
It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.
You just have to have the guidance to lead you in the direction until you can do it yourself.
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Every step of life shows much caution is required.
There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.
When the danger is great, one must not run away.
You can be assured that I need no one's guidance in anything concerning propriety.
Under the common law, one of the more controversial rules is the 'no duty to rescue rule' that says that, if you were not responsible for placing someone in danger or risk, you have no obligation to help them, even when it would cost little to save their life.
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