Fear Quote by Josephine Winslow Johnson

“... love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is.”

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“And there was the inner walking on the edge of darkness, the peering into black doorways...the unrevealed answer which must be somewhere, and yet…

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Everything drops away, comes to be unimportant in the dark. It's like sleep almost. A freedom from self, from ugliness.

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The woods seemed all answer and healing and more than enough to live for.

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things that have cost more than they're worth leave a bitter taste. A taste of salt and sweat.

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We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all the old…

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The dead elm leaves hung like folded bats.

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There is 'a time to be born' - and born again, free of accumulated, encrusted sores of fears and prejudices, old hates, of cancerous…

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“There must be some reason, I thought, why we should go on year after year, with this lump of debt, scrailing earth down to…

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“I like to pretend that the years alter and revalue, but begin to see that time does nothing but enlarge without mutation. You have…

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Lord make me satisfied with small things. Make me content to live on the outside of life. God make me love the rind!

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in mad people fear goes on constantly, night and day, wearing one ditch in the mind that all thoughts must travel in.

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