Oderint, dum metuant. Let them hate, so long as they fear.

-Accius
Quoted in Seneca Dialogues,'De Ira'.

He had a fear of the dead, and of all inanimate things, rising up around himto claim him; it isthe fearof thepre- eminently solitary child and solitary man.

-Ackroyd, Peter
  Of Charles Dickens. Dickens, prologue.

Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting, For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather!

-Allingham,William
  'The Fairies'.

Tragedy isthus a representationof anactionthat isworth serious attention, complete in itself and of some amplitude†by means of pityand fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.

-Aristotle
c.330  BC  Poetics, ch.6.

O born in days when wits were fresh and clear, And life ran gaily as the sparklingThames: Before this strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims, Its heads o'ertaxed, its palsied hearts, was rifeö Fly hence, our contact fear!

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems:  A New Edition,'The Scholar-Gipsy', l.201^6.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.2,'Of Death'.

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and mastersthefearofdeath. And therefore death is no such terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.2,'Of Death'.

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.19,'Of Empire'.

Doubt is a necessary precondition tomeaningful action. Fear is the great mover in the end.

-Barthelme, Donald
  Sadness,'The Rise of Capitalism'.

And always keep a hold of Nurse For fear of finding something worse.

-Belloc, (Joseph) Hilaire Pierre
  Cautionary  Tales,'Jim'.

An editor must always be with the peopleöthink with themöfeel with themöand he need fear nothing, he will always be rightöalways be strongöalways free.

-Bennett,James Gordon, Snr
  In the Courier and Enquirer,12 Nov.

In Place of Fear.

-Bevan, Aneurin
  Title of his book about disarmament.

   The L is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the L is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDPsalms 27:1.

   Though an host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.One thing have I desired of the L, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the L all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the L, and to inquire in his temple.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDORDPsalms 27:3^4.

O taste and see that the L isgood: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.O fear the L, ye his saints: for there isno wanttothemthat fear him.The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the L shall not want any good thing.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDORDPsalms 34:8^10.

O worship the L in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms 96:9.

For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as the east is fromthe west, so far hath heremoved our transgressions from us.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms103:11^12.

The fear of the L is the beginning of wisdom.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms111:10.

Better is little with the fear of the L than great treasure and trouble therewith. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDProverbs15:16^17.

Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 29:13.