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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I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.
Unresolved:A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.
Modesty is the clothing of talent.
A manshould never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying,in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
A life makingmistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doingnothing at all.
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
Imaginationis the eye of your soul.
The first duty of love is to listen.
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
A half truth is a whole lie.
Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily basedon mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts ofjustice and police.
A quiettongue shows a wise head.