Fear always springs from ignorance.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Quia me vestigia terrent
Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrorsum.
I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.
You are uneasy, * * * you never sailed with me before, I see.
Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience
from the fear of God.
| author = Samuel Johnson
| work = From Miss Reynolds—
Recollections of Johnson.
Deloin, c'est quelque chose; et de pres, ce n'est
rien.
From a distance it is something; and nearby
it is nothing.
La Fontaine—Fables. IV. 10.
Major ignotarum rerum est terror.
Apprehensions are greater in proportion as
things are unknown.
Livy—Annales. XXVIH. 44.
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| text = Oh, fear not in a world like this,
And thou shalt know ere long,—
Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.
| author = Longfellow
| work = The Light of Stars. St. 9.
They are slaves who fear to speak
For the fallen and the weak.
LowELii—Stanzas on Freedom. Last Stanza.
The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not
the object of it; and the man who can overcome
his own terror is a hero and more.
George MacDonald—Sir Gibbie. Ch. XX.
Wink and shut their apprehensions up.
Marston—Antonio's Revenge. Prolog.
The thing in the world I am most afraid of is
fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in
the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents.
Montaigne—Essays. Fear.
Imagination frames events unknown,
In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin,
And what it fears creates.
Hannah More—Belshazzar. Pt. II.
Quem metuit quisque, perisse cupit.
Every one wishes that the man whom he
fears would perish.
Ovid—Amorum. II. 2. 10.
Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia
tactum:
Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra nietum.
The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest
touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous.
Ovid—Epistola; Ex Ponto. II. 7. 13.
Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba
Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis.
The dove, O hawk, that has once been
wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the
least movement of a wing.
Ovn>—Tristium. I. 1. 75.
Then flash'd the living lightning from her eyes,
And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies,
Not louder shrieks to pitying Heaven are cast,
When husbands, or when lap dogs, breathe thenlast;
Or when rich China vessels fallen, from high,
In ghttering dust and painted fragments he.
| author = Pope
| work = Rape of the Lock. Canto III. L. 155.
A lamb appears a lion, and we fear
Each bush we see's a bear.
Quarles—Emblems. Bk. I. Emblem xill .
L. 19.
Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
Sir Walter Raleigh—Written on a window
pane for Queen Elizabeth to see. She wrote under it "If thy heart fails thee, climb not at
all." Fuller—Worthies of England. Vol. I.
P. 419.
Ad deteriora credenda proni metu.
Fear makes men believe the worst.
Quintus CuKTius Rufus—De Rebus Gestis
Alexandri Magni. IV. 3. 22.
Ubi explorari vera non possunt, falsa per metum augentur.
When the truth cannot be clearly made out,
what is false is increased through fear.
QuiNTUS Cuktius Rufus—De Rebus Gestis
Alexandri Magni. IV. 10. 10.
Ubi intravit animos pavor, id solum metuunt,
quod primum formidare cceperunt.
When fear has seized upon the mind, man
fears that only which he first began to fear.
Quintds Cuktius Rufus—De Rebus Gestis
Alexandri Magni. IV. 16. 17.
Quem neque gloria neque pericula excitant,
nequidquam hortere; timor animi auribus officii
The man who is roused neither by glory nor
by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes
the ears of the mind.
Sallust—Catilina. LVlU.
Wer nichts furchtet ist nicht weniger machtig,
als der, den Alles furchtet.
The man who fears nothing is not less powerful than he who is feared by every one.
Schiller—Die Rauber. I. 1.
Wenn ich einmal zu furchten angefangen
Hab' ich zu furchten aufgehort.
As soon as I have begun to fear I have
ceased to fear.
Schiller—Don Carlos. I. 6. 68.
