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fear

"A man who has been in danger,
When he comes out of it forgets his fears,
And sometimes he forgets his promises."

— Euripides - Iphigenia in Tauris (414-12 BC)

fear

"Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake."

— Edgar Wallace - The Clue of the Twisted Candle (1916)

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"I have almost forgot the taste of fears.
The time has been my senses would have cool'd
To hear a night shriek, and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
As life were in't. I have supp'd full with horrors;
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,
Cannot once start me."

— Will - Macbeth

fear

"All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears--of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, or speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required."

— - Dave Barry

fear

"The only thing we have to fear is fear it'self - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

— FDR - First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933

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"What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope."

— Publilius Syrus - Moral Sayings (1st C B.C.)

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"Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is."

— German Proverb

fear

"What are fears but voices airy?
Whispering harm where harm is not.
And deluding the unwary
Till the fatal bolt is shot!"

— Wordsworth

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"Why are we scared to die? Do any of us remember being scared when we were born?"

— Trevor Kay

fear

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear."

— H.P. Lovecraft

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