Danger

(48 votes)   A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.

I Ching
12th Century BC, Chinese Book of Changes

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(660 votes)   I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

Abraham Lincoln
1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA

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(635 votes)   The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(631 votes)   Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(448 votes)   Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(207 votes)   Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1819-1892, American Poet

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(148 votes)   The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(124 votes)   Between the anvil and the hammer.

German Proverb
Sayings of German Origin

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(124 votes)   Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.

Pink Floyd

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(123 votes)   When danger approaches, sing to it.

Arabian Proverbs
Sayings of Arabian Origin

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(120 votes)   In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(109 votes)   Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

Jean De La Fontaine
1621-1695, French Poet

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(108 votes)   As soon as there is life there is danger.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(107 votes)   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
c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata

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(104 votes)   One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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