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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.
Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others
Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others
His fear was greater than his haste:
For fear, though fleeter than the wind,
Believes 'tis always read more
His fear was greater than his haste:
For fear, though fleeter than the wind,
Believes 'tis always left behind.
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.
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.
To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.
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.]
The clouds dispell'd, the sky resum'd her light,
And Nature stood recover'd of her fright.
But fear, read more
The clouds dispell'd, the sky resum'd her light,
And Nature stood recover'd of her fright.
But fear, the last of ills, remain'd behind,
And horrow heavy sat on every mind.
It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter.
It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter.
