“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
Charlotte Bronte · Jane Eyre, 1847
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You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
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This is the line people quote most, and it works because she never promises the fear disappears. She just says to do the thing anyway.
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