Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like…

Samuel Johnson
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Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1761). The Rambler: In Four Volumes, p.113
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