Quotes with fearing

  • The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.

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  • Sun Tzu The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • Aristotle A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • William Shakespeare He that cuts off twenty years of life cuts off so many years of fearing death.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Isaac Asimov I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
    Isaac Asimov
    American writer (1920 - 1992)
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  • Bob Dylan In a soldier's stance, I aimed my hand at the mongrel dogs who teach
    Fearing not that I'd become my enemy in the instance that I preached
    My existence led by confusion boats, mutiny from stern to bow.
    Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Antoine Rivarol Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
    Antoine Rivarol
    French journalist (1753 - 1801)
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  • William Shakespeare Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
    Measure, for Measure I, 5
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • James Baldwin Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Charles Lamb The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Ellen Hubbard The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one.
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  • Francis Bacon To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
    Original: Dolendi modus, timendi non item.
    Latin
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Thomas Jefferson We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin What preoccupies us, then, is not God as a fact of nature, but as a fabrication useful for a God-fearing society. God himself becomes not a power but an image.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Edgar Allan Poe Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
    Edgar Allan Poe
    American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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