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Oderint, dum metuant. Let them hate, so long as they fear.
He had a fear of the dead, and of all inanimate things, rising up around himto claim him; it isthe fearof thepre- eminently solitary child and solitary man.
Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting, For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather!
Tragedy isthus a representationof anactionthat isworth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitudeby means of pityand fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.
O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparklingThames: Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertaxed, its palsied hearts, was rife Fly hence, our contact fear!
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and mastersthefearofdeath. And therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
Doubt is a necessary precondition tomeaningful action. Fear is the great mover in the end.
And always keep a hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse.
An editor must always be with the peoplethink with themfeel with themand he need fear nothing, he will always be rightalways be strongalways free.
In Place of Fear.
The L is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the L is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.One thing have I desired of the L, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the L all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the L, and to inquire in his temple.
O taste and see that the L isgood: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.O fear the L, ye his saints: for there isno wanttothemthat fear him.The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the L shall not want any good thing.
O worship the L in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.
For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as the east is fromthe west, so far hath heremoved our transgressions from us.
The fear of the L is the beginning of wisdom.
Better is little with the fear of the L than great treasure and trouble therewith. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men.
The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord G106 hath spoken, who can but prophesy?
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of themshall not fall ontheground without your Father.But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.
Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
Dominus illuminatio mea, et salus mea, quem timebo? The Lord is the source of my light and my safety, so whom shall I fear?
Often, the fear of one evil leadsus into inflicting onethat is worse.
No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere: I see Heaven's glories shine, And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting than fear. Burke
The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
Pity is lost in rage and fear.
Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.
Ah Fear! Ah frantic Fear! I see, I see thee near.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fearof life become publishers.
Subconsciously every one was, of course, fearful that he himself would go nutseveryone with the exception of those who had already gone nuts, who were in the wholly pleasant situation of having no fear.
Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear, To be we know not what, we know not where.
Neither fear nor courage saves us.Unnatural vices Are fathered by our heroism.Virtues Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes.
And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
People out of work are not given to talking much about the one thing on their minds.You only sense by indirection, degrees of anger, shades of humiliation and echoes of fear.
You need have no fear of any failure.
Any manwhose love of horses isstronger thanhis fear of being an absurdity is all right with me.
Why fear death? It's the most beautiful adventure in life.
I never dared be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.
In fear begotten, I begot in fear. Would you have had me cast fear out So that you should not be?
Thereisa certainbasis oftruth inthefear thatthe Russian government is beginning to have of communism, for communism isTsarist autocracy turned upside down.
We are nearer today to the ideal of the abolition of poverty and fear from the lives of men and women than ever before in any land.
Now hollow fires burn out to black And lamps are guttering low. Square your shoulders, lift your pack, And leave your friends and go. Oh, never fear, man, nought's to dread Look not left nor right. In all the endless road you tread, There's nothing but the night.
Cultured people practise self-examination with trepidation and fear.
I feared for her as I loved her, and the fear intensified the love.
Fear of Fifty.
Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act; Where they shall see the time's deformity Anatomised in every nerve, and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
A man of your head and hair should owe more to that reverend ceremony, and not mountthemarriage bed like atown-bull, ora mountain-goat; but stay the dueseason and ascend it then with religion and fear.
The fear of every man that heard him was, lest he should make an end. 450
Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. Together let us explore the stars.
Mankind, fear your Lord, who created you of a single soul, and from it created its mate, and from the pair of them scattered abroad many men and women; and fear God by whom you demand one of another, and the wombs; surely God ever watches over you.
O believers, fear God, and be with the truthful ones.
They fulfil their vows, and fear a day whose evil is upon the wing; they give food, for the love of Him, to the needy, the orphan, the captive: 'We feed you only for the Face of God; we desire no recompense from you, no thankfulness.'
Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear.
Life is first boredom, then fear.
The love of justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering injustice.
Proudly the note of the trumpet is sounding, Loudly the war-cries arise on the gale, Fleetly the steed by Loc Suilig is bounding To join the thick squadrons in Saimear's green vale. On, every mountaineer, Strangers to flight and fear: Rush to the standard of dauntless Red Hugh! Bonnought and gallowglass, Throng from each mountain-pass! On for old ErinO'Donnell abu!
There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.
Yet where an equal poise of hope and fear Does arbitrate the event, my nature is That I incline to hope, rather than fear, And gladly banish squint suspicion.
His trust was with the eternal to be deemed Equal in strength, and rather than be less Cared not to be at all; with that care lost Went all his fear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.
Let me assert my belief that the only thing that we have to fear is fear itselfnameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror that paralyses needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential freedoms.The first isfreedom of speech and expression, everywhere in the world.The second is the freedom of every person to worship God in his own way, everywhere in the world.The third is freedom from want The fourth is freedom from fear.
There is a lurking fear that some things are not meant 'to be known', that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make.
The Lord's my shepherd, I'll not want. He makes me down to lie In pastures green: he leadeth me the quiet waters by. My soul he doth restore again: and me to walk doth make Within the paths of righteousness, ev'n for his own name's sake. Yea, though I walk in death's dark vale, yet will I fear no ill: For thou art with me; and thy rod and staff me comfort still.
The National Debt is a very Good Thing, and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.
To survive in grand prix racing, you need to be afraid. Fear is an important feeling. It helps you to race longer and live longer. See Berger 79:93.
Still as he fled, his eye was backward cast, As if his fear still followed him behind.
My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.
Yet I strode on austere; No hope could have no fear.
To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; For who would fardels bear, till Birnam Wood do come to Dunsinane, But that the fear of something after death Murders the innocent sleep, Great nature's second course, And makes us rather sling the arrows of outrageous fortune Than fly to others that we know not of. There's the respect must give us pause: Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
A useful word previously unknown to me: 'ergophobia', meaning 'fear or hatred of work'. At last I can define myself in one word.
How anyone can fear that the British electorate, whatever mistakesitcanmake or maycondone, canever go too far or too fast is incomprehensible The Labour Party, when in due course it comes to be entrusted with power, will naturally not want to do everything at once. Once we facethenecessityof putting our principles into execution from one end of the kingdom to the other, the inevitabilityof gradualness cannot failtobe appreciated.
'Tisjust likea summerbirdcageinagarden; thebirdsthat are without despair toget in, and thebirdsthat are within despair, and are in a consumption, for fear they shall never get out.
Love mixed with fear is sweetness.
I play with the fear of letting people down. That's what motivates me.
Well-founded fear, whichtakes onethrough the valleyof the shadow of death without abandoning one there, is what makes the worst of worse journeys; the situation is made all the more intense when the fear is somehow mingled with delight.
Fair seed-time had my soul, and I grew up Fostered alike by beauty and by fear.
The fear that kills; And hope that is unwilling to be fed. 926
Not Chaos, not The darkest pit of lowest Erebus Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out By help of dreamscan breed such fear and awe As fall upon us often when we look Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man My haunt, and the main region of my song.
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