"Danger past, God forgotten."

Proverb on anger
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"Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old."

Floyd, Pink on anger   

"A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations."

I Ching on anger   

"I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend."

Lincoln, Abraham on anger
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"If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else."

Niebuhr, Reinhold on anger   

"When the danger is past God is cheated."

Proverb, Italian on anger   

"We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death."

Sarnoff, David on anger
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"A wreck on shore is a beacon at sea."

Proverb on anger   

"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on adventure
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"And yet a little tumult, now and then, is an agreeable quickener of sensation; such as a revolution, a battle, or an adventure of any lively description."

Byron, Lord on adventure
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"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over."

Aesop on adventure
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"The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home.' And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure."

Wilder, Thornton on adventure
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"Adventure is worthwhile."

Earhart, Amelia on adventure
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"The most dangerous thing is illusion."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on anger
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"The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on anger
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"As soon as there is life there is danger."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on anger   

"The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall."

Bacon, Francis on desire
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"Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings."

Bacon, Francis on doubt
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"In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

Bacon, Francis on doubt
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"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other."

Bacon, Francis on fear
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"One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life."

Miller, Henry on lies and lying
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"When I hold you in my arms and I feel my finger on your trigger I know no one can do me no harm because happiness is a warm gun."

Lennon, John on weapons   

"Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow."

Aesop on anger
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"Every man is his own chief enemy."

Anacharsis on anger
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"Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched."

Cervantes, Miguel De on anger
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"We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger."

Corneille, Pierre on anger
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"However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks."

Ellis, Havelock on anger
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"To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory."

Corneille, Pierre on anger   

"We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it."

Farquhar, George on adventure   

"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate."

Gogh, Vincent Van on adventure
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"It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death."

Twain, Mark on despair
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"Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse."

Cervantes, Miguel De on creation   

"Either God is in the whole of nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all."

Coulson, L. A. on creation   

"Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production -- only to produce a race of bed-wetters!"

Ehrenreich, Barbara on creation   

"Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one."

Fuller, Thomas on creation   

"This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."

Newton, Sir Isaac on creation
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"We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread between him and its darkness, in which were joined in a subdued measure, the stability and insensibility of the earth, and the passion and perishing of mankind."

Ruskin, John on creation   

"Man was created a little lower than the angels and has bin getting a little lower ever since."

Shaw, Henry Wheeler on creation   

"People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates."

Szasz, Thomas on creation   

"Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly -- a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects."

Twain, Mark on creation