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«The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.»
«Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.»
Author: Frank Crane | About: Responsibility | Keywords: develops, dread, fiber, fibers, womanhood
«The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.»
Author: John Locke (Philosopher) | About: Action, Evil, Religion | Keywords: dread, forcible, prospect
«The dread of criticism is the death of genius.»
Author: William Gilmore Simms | Keywords: Death of, dread
«The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.»
«There are some truths, however, that we should never forget: Superstition has always been the relentless enemy of science; faith has been a hater of demonstration; hypocrisy has been sincere only in its dread of truth, and all religions are inconsis»
«The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.»
«They (preachers) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live»
«My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.»
Author: Washington Irving (Writer) | About: Fear, Living | Keywords: dread
«Nor dread nor hope attendA dying animal;A man awaits his endDreading and hoping all.»

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