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Keep fear out of your child's mind, as you would keep poison out of his body for fear is the deadliest of mental poisons.
Orison Swett Marden
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Orison Swett Marden
Age: 75 †
Born: 1848
Born: June 11
Died: 1924
Died: March 10
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New Hampshire
United States
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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.
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Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.
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We lend power to the things we fear!
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