| Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. -- William Shakespeare |
| Author:
Shakespeare, WilliamEra:
1564 |
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| The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale - and that alone can guide. -- H. P. Blavatsky |
| Author:
Blavatsky, H. P.Era:
1831 |
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| Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear. -- William Shakespeare |
| Author:
Shakespeare, WilliamEra:
1564 |
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| Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised. -- Christian Nestell Bovee |
| Author:
Bovee, Christian NestellEra:
1820 |
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| Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. -- Mark Twain |
| Author:
Twain, MarkEra:
1835 |
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| Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government. -- Wendell L. Wilkie |
| Author:
Wilkie, Wendell L.Era:
1892 |
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| True nobility is exempt from fear. -- William Shakespeare, Henry VI |
| Author:
Shakespeare, WilliamEra:
1564 |
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| Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. -- Quarles |
| Author:
QuarlesEra:
1592 |
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| Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it. -- Christian Nestell Bovee |
| Author:
Bovee, Christian NestellEra:
1820 |
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| It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet,than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble. -- Epicurus |
| Author:
EpicurusEra:
-341 |
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| Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid...for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. -- Deuteronomy |
| Author:
DeuteronomyEra:
-1200 |
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| I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences you are to tell the truth. -- Samuel Johnson |
| Author:
Johnson, SamuelEra:
1709 |
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| Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not. -- Chinese Proverb |
| Author:
Proverb, ChineseEra:
0 |
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| He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead. -- John Keats |
| Author:
Keats, JohnEra:
1795 |
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| fear is the mother of foresight. -- Henry Taylor |
| Author:
Taylor, HenryEra:
1800 |
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| Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it...the basest of all things is to be afraid. -- William Faulkner |
| Author:
Faulkner, WilliamEra:
1897 |
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| Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence. -- Aristotle |
| Author:
AristotleEra:
-384 |
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| None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. -- Marshal Foch |
| Author:
Foch, MarshalEra:
1851 |
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| Whom men fear they hate, and whom they hate, they wish dead. -- Quintus Ennius |
| Author:
Ennius, QuintusEra:
-239 |
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| We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. -- Titus Livius Livy |
| Author:
Livy, Titus LiviusEra:
-59 |
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| Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish. -- Ovid |
| Author:
OvidEra:
-43 |
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| My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. -- Rabindranath Tagore |
| Author:
Tagore, RabindranathEra:
1861 |
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| An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand. -- Nagarjuna |
| Author:
NagarjunaEra:
100 |
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| This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all. -- Robert Herrick |
| Author:
Herrick, RobertEra:
1591 |
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| Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe |
| Author:
Goethe, Johann VonEra:
1749 |
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| You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. -- Eric Hoffer |
| Author:
Hoffer, EricEra:
1902 |
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