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It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome.
[Lat., Crux est si metuas quod vincere nequeas.]
It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome.
[Lat., Crux est si metuas quod vincere nequeas.]
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
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.
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Fear is the passion of slaves.
Fear is the passion of slaves.
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, read more
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of
God.
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of
God.
I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy
den, and none returning.
[Lat., Quia ne read more
I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy
den, and none returning.
[Lat., Quia ne vestigia terrent
Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrosum.]
