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In spite of her retiring nature and shrinking from publicity, Clara Barton remained probably the best known woman in America, surely one of the best-beloved.
New Orleans (La.) Item.
Miss Barton took the lecture platform, under an agreement to lecture 300 nights at $100 a night.
Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal.
Fear is the mother of foresight. Henry Taylor.
Fear is the mother of safety. Edmund Burke.
Fear makes us feel for humanity. Earl of Beaconsfield.
In the earlier years of my life, I remember nothing but fear.
Clara Barton.
It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person: “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Timid as a sheep. Ouida.
Timid as a doe. Robert Noel.
Timid as a fawn. Thackeray.
I am the most timid person on earth. Clara Barton.
Some critic has said that I was visibly agitated when I arose to address my audience;—the critic was right, and why should I not be? Clara Barton.
All speech-making terrifies me. First I have no taste for it, and lastly I hate it. Clara Barton.
Nothing could gratify me more than to know that I had been one of these self-reliant American girls like our sweet poetess Lucy Larcrom. Clara Barton.
If I could have gotten over my timid sensitiveness it would have given far less annoyance to my friends, and trouble to myself, all through life. Clara Barton.