Our fear of disaster

Our fear of disaster
Our fear of disasters that may never happen robs us of the courage to meet the ills that do occur
  

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The Natural flights of Human mind are not from Pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
It doesnot do to leave a Dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
A mistake in judgement isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgement is.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. Ilove it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords andharmonies.
Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side
Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Conflictisn't negative, it just is.
Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the goodintentions of those who create it.
Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country
Philosophy may describe unreason, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.
Tact is the ability to make a person see the lightning without letting him feel the bolt.
Thefreedom of the city is not negotiable. We cannot negotiate with those whosay, What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.