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Dread Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a…
- No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting…
- There is little peace or comfort in life if we are always anxious as to future events. He that worries himself with the dread of…
- The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection…
- Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.
- The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain
More Dread Quotes
- Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him. — William Shakespeare
- Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure,… — Dirk Benedict
- I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it. — John le Carre
- Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown. — Emile M. Cioran
- Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to… — H P Lovecraft
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man. — Georges Bernanos
- Home is the one place in all this world where hearts are sure of each other. It is the place of confidence.… — Frederick William Robertson