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If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David Thoreau
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aesop
Three removes are as bad as a fire
Benjamin Franklin
Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.
C.S. Lewis
I needed some real danger and some mortal risk to run, to tranquilize me.
Alexander Dumas, Ten Years Later
We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.
Pierre Corneille
To conquer without danger is to conquer without glory.
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
It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger.
Bhagavad Gita
Every man is his own chief enemy.
Anacharsis
In time of danger it is proper to be alarmed until danger be near at hand; but when we perceive that danger is near, we should oppose it as if we were not afraid.
Hitopadesa
