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The Renaissance4 quotes
Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly. — William Shakespeare · 1594To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,
Gives in your weakness strength unto your foe — William Shakespeare · 1595Our doubts are traitors
And makes us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt. — William Shakespeare · 1616Against love's fire fear's frost hath dissolution. — William Shakespeare · 1594Classical antiquity3 quotes
Let them hate, so long as they fear. — CaligulaNeither anarchy nor tyranny—this I counsel my citizens to support and respect, and not to drive fear wholly out of the city. For who among mortals, if he fears nothing, is righteous? — Aeschylus · 458 BCFear came upon me, and trembling. — Eliphaz · 500 BCAge of Enlightenment1 quote
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. — Edmund Burke · 1757Ancient World1 quote
Leave all things behind, and come unto me for thy salvation. I will make thee free from this bondage of sins. Fear no more. — Bhagavad Gita · 200 BCColonial America1 quote
If evils come not,
Then our fears are vain;
And if they do,
Fear but augments the pain. — Benjamin Franklin · 1741