"Come now, my child, if we were planning to harm you, do you think we'd be lurking here beside the path in the very darkest part of the forest?"

-- Kenneth Patchen

#Children Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Forests Quotes

“The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.”

Source : Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings”, p.283
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