Moreover, the latter two studies found evidence of enhanced avoidance in spider-fear. Tolin et al. (1999) reported that individuals with spider phobia spent relatively less time viewing spider pictures than control pictures.

They go to the beach when they should be hitting the books and then they wonder why they get bad grades.

Wouldst thou […] see Thy master thus with pleach’d arms, bending down His corrigible neck […]

Our yearnings are homesicknesses for heaven ; our sighings are for God, just as children that cry themselves asleep away from home, and sob in their slumber, know not that they sob for their parents.