Oh pilot, 't is a fearful night!

There's danger on the deep.

Thomas Haynes Bayly (1797-1839): The Pilot.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry IV. Part I. Act ii. Sc. 3.

A fiery soul, which, working out its way,

Fretted the pygmy-body to decay,

And o'er-inform'd the tenement of clay.

A daring pilot in extremity;

Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high

He sought the storms.

John Dryden (1631-1701): Absalom and Achitophel. Part i. Line 156.

Whom neither shape of danger can dismay,

Nor thought of tender happiness betray.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Character of the Happy Warrior.