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Since love and fear can hardly coexist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be read more
Since love and fear can hardly coexist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.
 An aching tooth is better out than in,
 To lose a rotten member is a gain.  
 An aching tooth is better out than in,
 To lose a rotten member is a gain. 
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
A fool boasts of those who fear him; a wise man's pride is those who respect him.
A fool boasts of those who fear him; a wise man's pride is those who respect him.
 Fear has many eyes.
 [Sp., El miedo tiene muchos ojos.]  
 Fear has many eyes.
 [Sp., El miedo tiene muchos ojos.] 
 His frown was full of terror, and his voice
 Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe
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 His frown was full of terror, and his voice
 Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe
  As left him not, till penitence had won
   Lost favor back again, and clos'd the breach. 
If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
 In extreme danger fear feels no pity.
 [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]  
 In extreme danger fear feels no pity.
 [Lat., In summo periculo timor miericordiam non recipit.]