Under the influence of fear which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things they magnified their enemies' resources and minimized their own.
In the company of the accomplished people hope it will rub off on themselves in the company of the misfortunate they fear it!
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Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow hard bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.