"In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as badly as one feared."

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God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope or courage. Pear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.

— Henry Ward Beecher