than fear. We should live in fear of nothing, nor will we when we come
fully to know ourselves. An old French proverb runs:

"Some of your griefs you have cured,
And the sharpest you still have survived;
But what torments of pain you endured
From evils that never arrived."

Fear and lack of faith go hand in hand. The one is born of the other.
Tell me how much one is given to fear, and I will tell you how much he
lacks in faith. Fear is a most expensive guest to entertain, the same as
worry is: so expensive are they that no one can afford to entertain
them. We invite what we fear, the same as, by a different attitude of
mind, we invite and attract the influences and conditions we desire.

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To remain in nature always sweet and simple and humble, and therefore
strong.

"Whatever the weather may be," says he,
"Whatever the weather may be,
It's the songs ye sing, an' the smiles ye wear,
That's a-makin' the sun shine everywhere."

_James Whitcomb Riley_

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Sweetness of nature, simplicity in manners and conduct, humility without