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• I find I have to touch what I am working on every day, or a deep-seated dread kicks in that is very hard to overcome.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  Overcoming, Kicks, Hard

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• The three most effective incentives to human action may be ... classified as creed, greed and dread. ... In examining the scientist it is perhaps worth while to examine how far he is moved by these three incentives. I think that, rather peculiarly and rather exceptionally, he is very little moved by dread. ... He is in fact essentially a person who has been taught he must be fearless in his dealing with facts.

  Robert Watson-Watt

  Science, Thinking, Effectiveness

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• I dread our own power, and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded... We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing, and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.

  Edmund Burke

  Ambition, Thinking, Abuse

  Edmund Burke's remarks on the policy of the allies, as quoted in "The Works of Edmund Burke", 1839.

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• I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

  Nancy Astor

  Getting Older, Want, Able

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• The hope of all who suffer, The dread of all who wrong.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Hope, Suffering

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.315

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• No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.

  Thomas Gray

  Hope, Father, Merit

  1751 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.125-8,'The Epitaph'.

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• Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well as our sorrows, pains, griefs and tears. ... It is the same thing which makes us mad or delirious, inspires us with dread and fear, whether by night or by day, brings us sleeplessness, inopportune mistakes, aimless anxieties, absent-mindedness and acts that are contrary to habit.

  Hippocrates

  Laughter, Pain, Mistake

  Hippocrates (1967). “Hippocrates”

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• I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again.

  William Butler Yeats

  Winning, Battle, Lost

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.318, Simon and Schuster

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• Do we indeed desire the dead Should still be near us at our side ? Is there no baseness we would hide ? No inner vileness that we dread ? How many a father have I seen A sober man, among his boys Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Father, Boys, Men

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Obiit MDCCCXXXIIi (Entire)”

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• A TV show where all of the characters are trying to figure out what's going on, and the suspense of that, fits my [voice] really well. You feel their frustration, anger and fear, and then, when the reveal happens, their sense of dread or horror, or whatever it is, and I like to paint with those colors.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Character, Frustration, Color

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• No true love there can be without Its dread penalty--jealousy.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Jealousy, Penalties

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• The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook.

  Horace

  Rivers, Lakes, Sea

  "Epistles", I. 16. 50, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 771-72, 1922.

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• No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Medicine, Mysterious, Progressive

  Thomas De Quincey (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)”, p.4128, Delphi Classics

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• One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands. Such is the nature of vile men. Yet we cannot live in dread of them. We cannot hide behind these high walls, our hearts trembling. For that is not life. We must accept the needs and the duties of each day, and face them one at a time.

  David Gemmell

  Wall, Fear, War

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• Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Fear, Punishment, Secured

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• Religion and nationalism, as well as any custom and any belief however absurd and degrading, if it only connects the individual with others, are refuges from what man most dreads: isolation.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Belief, Isolation

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Escape from Freedom”, p.30, Open Road Media

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• When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heart, Electric Shock, Purpose

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated)”, p.1018, Delphi Classics

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• Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread; Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.

  William Cowper

  Sunshine, Fate, Blow

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.118

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• To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.

  Sophocles

  Silence, Sorrow, Sound

  "Antigone". 1251,

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• Do that which you dread and cherish those victories with pride.

  Og Mandino

  Fear, Pride, Victory

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• 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!'.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fire, People, Theatre

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.64, Routledge

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• There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

  James Russell Lowell

  Mind, Left Alone, Bores

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.124

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• Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.

  Livy

  Men, Suffering, Greater

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, "Annales", III. 39, (pp. 762-763), 1922.

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• There is a possibility that your ability as a player may well be analysed by future generations on your one day statistics. That's the day I dread most.

  Allan Border

  Player, One Day, Generations

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• To ignore or use silence is a cruel tool. Hence this quote: Silence is all we dread; there's ransom in a voice; but silence is infinity.

  Emily Dickinson

  Bullying, Voice, Silence

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