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~ Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty. ~

Louisa May Alcott

~ You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty. ~

Louisa May Alcott

~ Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for. ~

Edward F. Halifax

~ All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life. ~

John Cheever

~ The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And if he is not romantic personally, he is apt to spread discontent among those who are. ~

Henry Louis Mencken

~ Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. ~

Douglas William Jerrold

~ The easiest period in a crisis situation is actually the battle itself. The most difficult is the period of indecision -- whether to fight or run away. And the most dangerous period is the aftermath. It is then, with all his resources spent and his guard down, that an individual must watch out for dulled reactions and faulty judgment. ~

Richard M. Nixon

~ Government is not reason, it is not eloquence. It is force, and like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~

George Washington

~ Delay always heeds danger. ~

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

~ We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted. ~

Unknown

~ The little word is has its tragedies; it marries and identifies different things with the greatest innocence; and yet no two are ever identical, and if therein lies the charm of wedding them and calling them one, therein too lies the danger. Whenever I use the word is, except in sheer tautology, I deeply misuse it; and when I discover my error, the world seems to fall asunder and the members of my family no longer know one another. ~

George Santayana

~ It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. ~

Charles Caleb Colton

~ Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery! ~

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

~ The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances boldly to meet them head on. The weak man grows agitated. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty If ignorant both ~

I Ching

~ I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it, and while our soldiers can stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them. ~

Clara Barton

~ We are confronted by a first danger, the destructiveness of applied atomic energy. And then we are confronted by a second danger, that we do not enough appreciate the first danger. ~

Raymond G. Swing

~ Danger past, God forgotten. ~

Proverb

~ Anger is only one letter short of danger ~

Unknown

~ If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward. ~

Jack Handy

~ You are permitted in time of great danger to walk with the devil until you have crossed the bridge. ~

Bulgarian Proverb

~ The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger. ~

Lucan

~ A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. ~

Jean Paul Richter

~ The greater the fear the nearer the danger ~

Danish Proverb

~ One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Hatred and anger are powerless when met with kindness. ~

Unknown

~ Anger may be kindled in the noblest breasts: but in these slow droppings of an unforgiving temper never takes the shape of consistency of enduring hatred. ~

M. Kathleen Casey

~ Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth. ~

Ambrose Bierce

~ Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies. ~

Samuel Butler

~ In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution. ~

Wendell L. Willkie

~ The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man. ~

Confucius

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