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Tragedy is thus a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude... by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.
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Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and
View quotes by Brian Adams

Each sudden gust of light explains itself as flames, but neither they, nor even bombs redoubled on the hills tonight can quite include me in their fear (Leaving Belfast)
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When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.
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Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.
View quotes by Diane Abbott

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. (Leviathan)
View quotes by Thomas Hobbes

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
View quotes by Jean Baudrillard

I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, I will save it.
View quotes by Steve Irwin

Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.

View quotes by Anwar Sadat

The fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself. And no heart ever suffered when it went in search of its dreams.
View quotes by Paulo Coelho

The comedians greatest fear is not that the crowd is not enjoying things, but that even when we change the material the crowd is not interested. Though when that happens perhaps it tells you something!
View quotes by Steve Harvey

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
View quotes by Benjamin Disraeli

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future
View quotes by Montaigne

If fear is cultivated, it will become stronger. If faith is cultivated, it will achieve mastery.
View quotes by John Paul Jones

Fear to do base, unworthy things is valor; if they be one to us, to suffer them is valor too
View quotes by Ben Jonson

Think freely and independently or you are a slave bound by imaginary
shackles. These shackles may be wrought by tradition, emotion, neediness, or
fear.
View quotes by Jason Merchey

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.
View quotes by Ivo Andric

My life is spent in a perpetual alternation between two rhythms, the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely, and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them because I know that I am bored
View quotes by C E M Joad

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
View quotes by Horace Mann

To be happy, the passions must be cheerful and gay, not gloomy and melancholy. A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty
View quotes by David Hume

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