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«As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.»
Author: Hans Selye | About: Approval | Keywords: approval, condemnation, dread, thirst
«Borders are scratched across the hearts of men, by strangers with a calm, judicial pen, and when the borders bleed we watch with dread the lines of ink along the map turn red»
«Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it»
«Dread not infanticide; the crime is imaginary: we are always mistress of what we carry in our womb, and we do no more harm in destroying this kind of matter than in evacuating another, by medicines, when we feel the need.»
«And all should cry, Beware! Beware! / His flashing eyes, his floating hair! / Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread, / For he on honey-dew hath fed, / And drunk the milk of Paradise.»
«Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown»
«Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to death when there is a panic in a theatre caused by a cry of `Fire!'»
«Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.»
Author: Epictetus | Keywords: covetousness, cowardice, dread
«Death without dread of death is welcome death»
Author: Seneca | About: Death and dying | Keywords: dread
«Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.»