Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...text was especially violent, and was regarded with a kind of superstitious veneration peculiar to the East. When the man was healed of his infirmity, he wished to show his devotion to Jesus and to follow him as a disciple. He was restrained, however, and when the Gadarenes, being afraid of Christ, asked him to leave them, the convert was left behind as his witness. The man remained, and spent the rest of his life preaching the Gospel to the Gadarenes...
...both, was appealed to, and this is how she answered: "It is very difficult for me to decide, but I will tell you how they both affect me. In the balcony scene, when Garrick is making love as Romeo, he is so eager and ardent that I am afraid every moment that he will leap and jump up to me. When I act with Barrie he is so fascinating that I am afraid every moment that I will jump down from the balcony...
Professor James closed with these words: "Do not be afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. The proof that you are right may not be clear before the day of judgment (or some stage of Being which that expression may serve to symbolize) is reached. But the faithful fighters of this hour, or the beings that then and there will represent them, may then turn to the fainthearted who here decline to go on, with words like those with which Henry IV greeted the tardy Crillon after a great victory...
...future of the game. Gentlemen, you must put your shoulders to the work; you must lend yourselves in earnest to the effort which has got to be made to improve the spirit of the game if the game itself is to be saved. You must not be afraid to make bold experiments and sweeping changes in the rules. If you are timid, if you are over-conservative, either from negligence or from fear of losing some temporary partisan advantage, the game, with all its splendid qualities, moral and intellectual as well as physical, will have to go. And on your...
...principle brought here into play that has always been the principle of healing or strengthening the soul. There is no prospect of getting rid of evil in the world: we must overcome the evil with good, that is to say, by the influence of strong men who are not afraid of being tempted because they can resist temptation. Pure, strong men then may have a great influence. They may really cure sick or feeble souls. The moral strength of the college does not depend on the extermination of evil here. That is not to be hoped for. It depends rather...