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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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• 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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• Some feminist critics debate whether we take our meaning and sense of self from language and in that process become phallocentric ourselves, or if there is a use of language that is, or can be, feminine. Some, like myself, think that language is itself neither male nor female; it is creatively expansive enough to be of use to those who have the wit and art to wrest from it their own significance. Even the dread patriarchs have not found a way to 'own' language any more than they have found a way to 'own' earth (though many seem to believe that both are possible).

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

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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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• 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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• Living well has something to do with the spirituality of wholeheartedness, of seeing life more as a grace than as a penance, as time to be lived with eager expectation of its goodness, not in dread of its challenges.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Expectations, Grace, Challenges

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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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• Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Men, Secret, Earth

  H.P. Lovecraft, Digital Papyrus (2016). “H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)”, p.1485, eBookIt.com

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• I think when people say they dread going into work on Monday morning, it's because they know they are leaving a piece of themselves at home. Why not see what happens when you challenge your employees to bring all of their talents to their job and reward them not for doing it just like everyone else, but for pushing the envelope, being adventurous, creative, and open-minded, and trying new things?

  Tony Hsieh

  Motivational, Monday, Morning

  Tony Hsieh (2010). “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• The Lord never came to deliver men from the consequences of their sins while yet those sins remained...Yet men, loving their sins and feeling nothing of their dread hatefulness, have, consistent with their low condition, constantly taken this word concerning the Lord to mean that he came to save them from the punishment of their sins.

  George MacDonald

  Taken, Mean, Men

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• For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.

  Ian Botham

  Faces, Moments, Mortality

  Ian Botham (2017). “Botham: My Autobiography”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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• I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.

  James A. Garfield

  Fall, Feelings, Progress

  "Garfield's Words: Suggestive Passages from the Public and Private Writings of James Abram Garfield". Book by James Abram Garfield, 1882.

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• Death happens but once, yet we feel it every moment of our lives; it is worse to dread it than to suffer it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Death, Suffering, Moments

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• Anything is a temptation to those who dread it.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Temptation

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• No disease of the imagination is so difficult to cure, as that which is complicated with the dread of guilt : fancy and conscience then act interchangeably upon us, and so often shift their places, that the illusions of one are not distinguished from the dictates of the other.

  E. M. Forster

  Imagination, Guilt, Disease

  E. M. Forster (1987). “Commonplace Book”, p.76, Stanford University Press

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• A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Animal, Men, Mark

  "George Bernard Shaw, His Life and Works (Chapter VII: The Art Critic)". Book by Archibald Henderson (pp. 201-202), 1911.

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• We have on the one hand a desperate need; hunger, sickness, and the dread of war. We have, on the other, the conception of something that might meet it: omnicompetent global technocracy. Are not these the ideal opportunity for enslavement? This is how it has entered before; a desperate need (real or apparent) in the one party, a power (real or apparent) to relieve it, in the other.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, War, Party

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