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You are uneasy, . . . you never sailed with me before, I see. - Andrew Jackson, Parton's Life of Jackson (vol. III, p. 493) Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. - Mrs. Anna Brownell Jameson In every mind where there is a strong tendency to fear there is a strong capacity to hate. Those who dwell in fear dwell nest door to hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women which makes them such intense haters. - Mrs. Anna Brownell Jameson In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. - Mrs. Anna Brownell Jameson Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") The weakness we lament, ourselves create. Instructed from our infant years to court, With counterfeited fears, the aid of man, We learn to shudder at the rustling breeze, Start at the light, and tremble in the dark, Till affectation, rip'ning to belief And folly, frighted at our own chimeras, Habitual cowardice usurps the soul. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Timidity is a disease of the mind, obstinate and fatal; for a man once persuaded that any impediment is insuperable has given it, with respect to himself, that strength and weight which it had not before. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature"), Recollections of Johnson, From Miss Reynolds If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery. - John Paul Jones Fear loves the idea of danger. - Joseph Joubert The only inheritance I have received from my ancestors is a soul incapable of fear. - Julian (Flavius Claudius Julianus)("The Apostate") Noiseless as fear in a wide wilderness. - John Keats (1) Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, in his inaugural speech, January 20, 1961 We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears. - Rudyard Kipling From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing. [Fr., De loin, c'est quelque chose; et de pres, ce n'est rien.] - Jean de la Fontaine, Fables (IV, 10) No one but a poltroon will boast that he never was afraid. - Marshal Jean de Lannes, Duke of Montebello, in Ralph Waldo Emerson's Conduct of Life, pt. 4 Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear. - G. Gordon Liddy Apprehensions are greater in proportion as things are unknown. [Lat., Major ignotarum rerum est terror.] - Titus Livy, Annales (XXVIII, 44) O, fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long,-- Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Oh, fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know ere long,-- Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Light of Stars (st. 9) They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak; . . . . They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three. - James Russell Lowell, Stanzas on Freedom (last stanza) I more fear what is within me than what comes from without. - Martin Luther Displaying page 4 of 9 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5 6 7 8 9
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