William Shakespeare Quotes About Fear
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Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.
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Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?
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To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.
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In time we hate that which we often fear.
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Hang those that talk of fear.
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Be wary then; best safety lies in fear.
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But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly.
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I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool’d to hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in’t: I have supt full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me.
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Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
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Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.
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Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.
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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? And shall I couple Hell?
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Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win.
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I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O list!
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
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Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.
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Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.
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When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength; and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.
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The fear's as bad as falling.
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Nothing routs us but the villainy of our fears.
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What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?
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To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe, And so your follies fight against yourself. Fear, and be slain--so worse can come to fight; And fight and die is death destroying death, Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.
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Be just, and fear not.
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ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.
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Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.
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It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't.
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To be furious, is to be frighted out of fear.
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When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear.
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