Alexander Pope Quotes About Fear

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  • Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

    An Essay on Criticism l. 625 (1711)
  • Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer; Born to die, and reasoning but to err.

    Alexander Pope (1867). “An Essay on Man: In Four Epistles, to H.St.John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.18
  • Truths would you teach, or save a sinking land? All fear, none aid you, and few understand.

    Alexander Pope, Henry St. John Bolingbroke (Viscount.) (1824). “An essay on man: in four epistles to H. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke”, p.48
  • Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

    Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.73
  • Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.

  • Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?

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