Great Throughts Treasury

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François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

Fear |

William Shakespeare

O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!

Fear |

William Shakespeare

O these encounterers, so glib of tongue, that give a coasting welcome ere it comes, and wide unclasp the tables of their thoughts to every ticklish reader! Set them down for sluttish spoils of opportunity and daughters of the game.

Fear |

William Shakespeare

O you mighty gods! This world I do renounce, and in your sights shake patiently my great affliction off. If I could bear it longer, and not fall to quarrel with your great opposeless wills, my snuff and loathed part of nature should burn itself out.

Example | Fear | Good | Kill | Madness | Man | Men | Trust | Wonder |

William Shakespeare

Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first. Othello the Moor of Venice (Iago at I, i)

Fear | Old |

William Shakespeare

Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.

Fear |

William Shakespeare

Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite by bare imagination of a feast?

Fear | Man | Wife | Will |

William Shakespeare

Possessed he is with greatness, and speaks not to himself but with a pride that quarrels at self-breath.

Fear | Will |

William Shakespeare

Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek. Love's Labor's Lost (Berowne at IV, iii)

Fear |

Edwin Percy Whipple

As the grave grows nearer my theology is growing strangely simple, and it begins and ends with Christ as the only Saviour of the lost.

Fear | Honor | Laughter | Men | Oppression | Respect | Respect |

Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars, - not so sparkling and vivid as many, but dispensing a calm radiance that hallows the whole. It is the bow that rests upon the bosom of the cloud when the storm is past. It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.

Fear | Scepticism | Science | Truth | Universe |

Kautilya, aka Chanakya or Vishnu Gupta NULL

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

Family | Fear | Grief |

Edwin Percy Whipple

The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.

Audacity | Character | Danger | Fear | Genius | Insanity | Man | Men | Danger |

Egyptian Proverbs

The only thing that is humiliating is helplessness.

Fear | Force | Object |

Elif Safak

Human beings tend to discredit the things he cannot understand for some reason.

Blame | Fear | God | Love | Means | Mind | Reflection | God |

Elias Canetti

The first effect of adjusting to other people is that one becomes boring.

Fear |

Elif Safak

The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time.

Blame | Compassion | Fear | God | Love | Means | Reflection | Will | God |