Face danger boldly and it won’t hurt you. As the old rhyme has it:

> Tender-handed stroke a nettle,
> And it stings you for your pains;
> Grasp it like a man of mettle,
> And it soft as silk remains.

Harry Hotspur says in Shekspeare’s _Henry IV_ (Part I): ‘Out of this nettle,
danger, we pluck this flower, safety.’

##### See also:

* The bull must be taken by the horns