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Thoreau's Life & Writings
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Henry D. Thoreau Quotation Pages

On Fear

  • Men die of fright and live of confidence. [Journal, 1850]
     

  • Fear creates danger, and courage dispels it. [Journal, 12 November 1859]
     

  • Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. [Journal, 7 September 1851]

 


A Note on the Text:

  • Source: Unless otherwise noted, quotations are from The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906)

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