Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources. Rev. James Wood
the whole duty of man. Bible.
Fear God; honour the king. St. Peter.
Fear guards the vineyard. It. Pr. 35
Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude. Goldsmith.
Fear has many eyes. Cervantes.
Fear hath torment. St. John.
Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions. It has boded, and mowed, and gibbered for ages over government and property. Emerson.
Fear is described by Spenser to ride in armour, 40 at the clashing whereof he looks afeared of himself. Peacham.
Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage. Sir P. Sidney.
Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws. Sir P. Sidney.
Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing. Longfellow.
Fear is worse than fighting. Gael. Pr.
Fear not that tyrants shall rule for ever, / Or 45 the priests of the bloody faith; / They stand on the brink of that mighty river / Whose waves they have tainted with death. Shelley.
Fear not the confusion (Verwirrung) outside of thee, but that within thee; strive after unity, but seek it not in uniformity; strive after repose, but through the equipoise, not through the stagnation (Stillstand), of thy activity. Schiller.
Fear not the future; weep not for the past. Shelley.
Fear not, then, thou child infirm; / There's no god dare wrong a worm. Emerson.
Fear not where Heaven bids come; / Heaven's never deaf but when man's heart is dumb. Quarles.
Fear of change / Perplexes monarchs. Milton. 50
Fear oftentimes restraineth words, but makes not thought to cease. Lord Vaux.
Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground and fetters them from moving. Montaigne.
Fear to do base, unworthy things is valour; / If they be done to us, to suffer them / Is valour too. Ben Jonson.
Fear's a fine spur. Samuel Lover.
Fear's a large promiser; who subject live / 55 To that base passion, know not what they give. Dryden.
Fears of the brave and follies of the wise. Johnson.
Fearfully and wonderfully made. Bible.
Fearless minds climb soonest into crowns. 3 Hen. VI., iv. 7.
Feasting makes no friendship. Pr.
Feast-won, fast-lost. Tim. of Athens, ii. 2. 60
Feather by feather the goose is plucked. Pr.
Fecisti enim nos ad te, et cor inquietum donec requiescat in te—Thou hast made us for Thee, and the heart knows no rest until it rests in Thee. St. Augustine.
Fecit—He did it.
Fecundi calices quem non fecere disertum?—Whom have not flowing cups made eloquent? Hor.
Fede ed innocenzia son reperte / Solo ne' pargoletti—Faith and innocence are only to be found in little children. Dante.
Feeble souls always set to work at the wrong time. Cardinal de Reiz.
Feebleness is sometimes the best security. 5 Pr.
Feed a cold and starve a fever. Pr.
Feed no man in his sins; for adulation / Doth make thee parcel-devil in damnation. George Herbert.
Feeling comes before reflection. H. R. Haweis.
Feeling should be stirred only when it can be sent to labour for worthy ends. Brooke.
Feelings are always purest and most glowing 10 in the hour of meeting and farewell; like the glaciers, which are transparent and rose-hued only at sunrise and sunset, but throughout the day grey and cold. Jean Paul.
Feelings are like chemicals; the more you analyse them, the worse they smell. Kingsley.
Feelings come and go like light troops following the victory of the present; but principles, like troops of the line, are undisturbed, and stand fast. Jean Paul.
Feelings, like flowers and butterflies, last longer the later they are delayed. Jean Paul.
Fehlst du, lass dich's nicht betrüben; Denn der Mangel führt zum Lieben; / Kannst dich nicht vom Fehl befrein, / Wirst du Andern gern verzeihn—Shouldst thou fail, let it not trouble thee, for failure (lit. defect) leads to love. If thou canst not free thyself from failure, thou wilt never forgive others. Goethe.
Feindlich ist die Welt / Und falsch gesinnt; 15 Es liebt ein jeder nur / Sich selbst—Hostile is the world, and falsely disposed. In it each one loves himself alone. Schiller.
Felices errore suo—Happy in their error. Lucan.
Felices ter et amplius / Quos irrupta tenet copula, nec, malis / Divulsus quærimoniis, / Suprema citius solvet amor die—Thrice happy they, and more than thrice, whom an unbroken link binds together, and whom love, unimpaired by evil rancour, will not sunder before their last day. Hor.
Felicitas nutrix est iracundiæ—Prosperity is the nurse of hasty temper. Pr.
Feliciter is sapit, qui periculo alieno sapit—He is happily wise who is wise at the expense of another. M.
Felicity lies much in fancy. Pr. 20
Felicity, not fluency, of language is a merit. Whipple.
Felix, heu nimium felix—Happy, alas! too happy! Virg.
Felix qui nihil debet—Happy is he who owes nothing.
Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas—Happy he who has succeeded in learning the causes of things. Virg.
Felix, qui quod amat, defendere fortiter andet—Happy 25 he who dares courageously to defend what he loves. Ovid.
Fell luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksands, poverty or chains. Hannah More.
Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more / Than when it bites but lanceth not the sore. Rich. II., i. 3.
Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence. Burke.
Felo de se—A suicide. L.
Female friendships are of rapid growth. 30 Disraeli.
Feme covert—A married woman. L.
Feme sole—An unmarried woman. L.
Femme,