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Fear Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

73 Fear quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Emerson’s take on fear is filtered through his transcendental lens, turning a common emotion into a catalyst for growth. In these seventy‑three entries you’ll encounter the same earnestness that marks his essays, now focused on the unsettling side of human experience.

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Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State.

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Fear is cruel and mean.

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O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

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Fear is a great instructor.

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Knowledge is the antidote to fear

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A man is known by the books he reads.

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Do what you fear and your fear will die.

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A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

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We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.

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Fear is the instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions

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Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.

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O friend, never strike sail to a fear! Come into port greatly, or sail with God the seas.

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If you are wise, you will dread a prosperity which only loads you with more.

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He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

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Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

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Fear not, then, thou child infirm; There's no god dare wrong a worm

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In every situation do the thing you fear. If you do the thing you fear, the death of fear is certain.

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It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'

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To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is…

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Sole and self-commanded works, Fears not undermining days, Grows by decays, And, by the famous might that lurks In reaction and recoil,…

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Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]

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The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency.

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“It is not the length of life, but the depth of life. He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not…

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Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?

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“let him look into [fear's] eye and search its nature, inspect its origin, - see the whelping of this lion, - which…

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Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this…

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Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is…

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When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed,…

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Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so…

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If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old…

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Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special…

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Fear, when your friends say to you what you have done well, and say it through; but when they stand with uncertain…

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Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.…

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We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the…

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“Fear and hope are alike beneath it. There is somewhat low even in hope. In the hour of vision, there is nothing…

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The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all…

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“If there is any period one would desire to be born in, ⎯ is it not the age of Revolution; when the…

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Fear always springs from ignorance.

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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.

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Do that which you fear to do, and the fear will die.

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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

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“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book…

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The order of things consents to virtue.

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Life only avails, not the having lived.

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Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power…

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A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine.

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may…

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I am; therefore, I had nothing better to do than to think.

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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern…

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The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…

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