fear quotes

   The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord G106 hath spoken, who can but prophesy?

-Bible (Old Testament)
OD Amos 3:8.

Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of themshall not fall ontheground without your Father.But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew10:29^31.

Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Romans13:7^8.

Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Philippians 2:12.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.

-Bible (NewTestament)
  John 4:18.

Dominus illuminatio mea, et salus mea, quem timebo? The Lord is the source of my light and my safety, so whom shall I fear?

-Bible (Vulgate)
Psalm 26:1.

Often, the fear of one evil leadsus into inflicting onethat is worse.

-Boileau (Despre¤  aux), Nicolas
  L'Art poe¤  tique.

No coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere: I see Heaven's glories shine, And faith shines equal, arming me from fear.

-Bronte«  , EmilyJane
  'No Coward Soul is Mine', in Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting than fear. Burke

-Burke, Edmund
  On the Sublime and Beautiful, pt.2, section 2.

   The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

-Burke, Edmund
  On Conciliation with  America.

  Pity is lost in rage and fear.

-Carlyle,Thomas
  History of the French Revolution, vol.3, bk.2, ch.7.

Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'The Rime of the  Ancient Mariner', pt.6.

Ah Fear! Ah frantic Fear! I see, I see thee near.

-Collins,William
  Odes on Several Descriptive and  Allegoric Subjects,'Ode to Fear', l.5^6.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers, so those with an irrational fearof life become publishers.

-Connolly, Cyril Vernon
  Enemies of Promise, ch.10.

Subconsciously every one was, of course, fearful that he himself would go nutsöeveryone with the exception of those who had already gone nuts, who were in the wholly pleasant situation of having no fear.

-cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings
  The Enormous Room, ch.5.

Death, in itself, is nothing; but we fear, To be we know not what, we know not where.

-Dryden,John
  Aureng-Zebe, act 4, sc.1.

Neither fear nor courage saves us.Unnatural vices Are fathered by our heroism.Virtues Are forced upon us by our impudent crimes.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  'Gerontion'.

And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Waste Land, pt.1,'The Burial of the Dead'.

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

-Emerson, RalphWaldo
  Society and Solitude,'Courage'.

People out of work are not given to talking much about the one thing on their minds.You only sense by indirection, degrees of anger, shades of humiliation and echoes of fear.

-Evans,Walker
Quoted in Fortune,11 Feb1980.

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