John Dryden Quotes About Fear
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Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
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When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads, Our apprehensions shoot beyond all bounds, Owls, Ravens, Crickets seem the watch of death, Nature's worst Vermine scare her God-like Sons. Ecchoes the very leavings of a Voice, Grow babling Ghosts, and call us to our Graves: Each Mole-hill thought swells to a huge Olympus, While we fantastick Dreamers heave and puff, And sweat with an Imagination's weight.
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She feared no danger, for she knew no sin.
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He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
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I feel my sinews slackened with the fright, and a cold sweat trills down all over my limbs, as if I were dissolving into water.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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