{"id":4182,"date":"2016-01-06T03:48:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-06T10:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=4182"},"modified":"2017-04-27T08:01:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T15:01:13","slug":"six-quotes-about-danger-from-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/six-quotes-about-danger-from-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Quotes about Danger from Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DangerFear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Robinson Crusoe<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Daniel Defoe<\/a><\/p>\n

“You have plenty of courage, I am sure,” answered Oz. “All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Wonderful Wizard of Oz<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0L. Frank Baum<\/a><\/p>\n

“Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated? “<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Land of Mist<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/a><\/p>\n

It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Way of All Flesh<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Samuel Butler<\/a><\/p>\n

By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but that an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Moby Dick<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Herman Melville<\/a><\/p>\n

A man will tell you that he has worked in a mine for forty years unhurt by an accident as a reason why he should apprehend no danger, though the roof is beginning to sink.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Silas Marner<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0George Eliot<\/a><\/p>\n

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