Discussing the effects of fear and the prevention of it, Mary Baker Eddy writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures: "Gazing at a chained lion, crouched for a spring, should not terrify a man.
A mile is not far to walk, but when it is to be covered on a tightrope slung high above a dam, for most people it might just as well be as far as to Mars, so formidable would the journey seem.
