Better have a dog fawn upon you than bite you. [ Proverb ]

To fawn with the tail, and bite with the mouth. [ Proverb ]

Spaniels that fawn when beaten will never forsake their masters. [ Proverb ]

We cannot describe the natural history of the soul, but we know that it is divine. All things are known to the soul. It is not to be surprised by any communication. Nothing can be greater than it. Let those fear and those fawn who will. The soul is in her native realm; and it is wider than space, older than time, wide as hope, rich as love. Pusillanimity and fear she refuses with a beautiful scorn; they are not for her who putteth on her coronation robes, and goes out through universal love to universal power. [ Emerson ]