Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Fear is worse than fighting. Gael. Pr.

Fear not that tyrants shall rule for ever, / Or 45 the priests of the bloody faith; / They stand on the brink of that mighty river / Whose waves they have tainted with death. Shelley.

Fear not the confusion (Verwirrung) outside of thee, but that within thee; strive after unity, but seek it not in uniformity; strive after repose, but through the equipoise, not through the stagnation (Stillstand), of thy activity. Schiller.

Fear not the future; weep not for the past. Shelley.

Fear not, then, thou child infirm; / There's no god dare wrong a worm. Emerson.

Fear not where Heaven bids come; / Heaven's never deaf but when man's heart is dumb. Quarles.

Fear of change / Perplexes monarchs. Milton. 50

Fear oftentimes restraineth words, but makes not thought to cease. Lord Vaux.

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground and fetters them from moving. Montaigne.

Fear to do base, unworthy things is valour; / If they be done to us, to suffer them / Is valour too. Ben Jonson.