Definition of fear

"fear" in the noun sense

1. fear, fearfulness, fright

an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)

2. concern, care, fear

an anxious feeling

"care had aged him"

"they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction"

3. fear, reverence, awe, veneration

a feeling of profound respect for someone or something

"the fear of God"

"the Chinese reverence for the dead"

"the French treat food with gentle reverence"

"his respect for the law bordered on veneration"

"fear" in the verb sense

1. fear

be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event

"I fear she might get aggressive"

2. fear, dread

be afraid or scared of be frightened of

"I fear the winters in Moscow"

"We should not fear the Communists!"

3. fear

be sorry used to introduce an unpleasant statement

"I fear I won't make it to your wedding party"

4. fear

be uneasy or apprehensive about

"I fear the results of the final exams"

5. reverence, fear, revere, venerate

regard with feelings of respect and reverence consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of

"Fear God as your father"

"We venerate genius"

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Quotations for fear

Wise fear
Begets care. [ Proverb ]

Fear hath torment. [ St. John ]

Truth without fear. [ Motto ]

Fear has many eyes. [ Cervantes ]

Fear nothing but sin. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Fear is faithlessness. [ George MacDonald ]

Fear is cruel and mean. [ Emerson ]

Neither desire nor fear. [ Motto ]

Persevere and never fear. [ Proverb ]

Fear guards the vineyard. [ Italian Proverb ]

Fear God; honour the king. [ St. Peter ]

Beggars fear no rebellion. [ Proverb ]

Fear the beadle of the law. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Fear is stronger than love. [ Proverb ]

I neither fear nor despise. [ Motto ]

Foolish fear doubles danger. [ Proverb ]

Fear is worse than fighting. [ Gaelic Proverb ]

Hang those that talk of fear. [ William Shakespeare ]

Higher than the perfect song,
For which love longeth,
Is the tender fear of wrong,
That never wrongeth. [ Bayard Taylor ]

Fear is one part of prudence. [ Proverb ]

Fear not; for I am with thee. [ Bible ]

Fear is the mother of safety. [ Burke ]

Hope and fear are inseparable. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Fear is the parent of cruelty. [ Froude ]

Fear loves the idea of danger. [ Joubert ]

Perfect love casteth out fear. [ St. John ]

Love is incompatible with fear. [ Publius Syrus ]

Ships fear fire more than water. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Fear makes us feel our humanity. [ Beaconsfield ]

Ignorance is the mother of fear. [ Lord Kames ]

Fear that man who fears not God. [ Abdl-el-Kader ]

So much to win, so much to lose.
No marvel that I fear to choose. [ Miss Landon ]

Nothing is to be feared but fear. [ Bacon ]

Oh, fear not in a world like this.
And thou shalt know ere long, -
Know how sublime a thing it is,
To suffer and be strong. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Light Of Stars ]

Scalded cats fear even cold water. [ Proverb ]

We shape ourselves the joy or fear
Of which the coming life is made,
And fill our Future's atmosphere
With sunshine or with shade. [ Whittier ]

He that is down need fear no fall. [ Bunyan ]

Fear always springs from ignorance. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

It was fear that first put on arms. [ Proverb ]

The absent feel and fear every ill. [ Cervantes ]

Courage is often an effect of fear. [ French Proverb ]

Simple duty hath no place for fear. [ Whittier ]

No one loves the man whom he fears. [ Aristotle ]

Yet all I've learnt from hours rife
With painful brooding here,
Is, that amid this mortal strife.
The lapse of every year
But takes away a hope from life.
And adds to death a fear. [ Hoffman ]

O, weary hearts! O, slumbering eyes!
O, drooping souls whose destinies
Are fraught with fear and pain,
Ye shall be loved again! [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Endymion ]

Ignorant of guilt, I fear not shame. [ John Dryden ]

Fearless as the strong-winged eagle. [ Ossian ]

Happiest they of human race,
To whom God has granted grace
To read, to fear, to hope, to pray,
To lift the latch and force the way;
And better had they ne'er been born,
Who read to doubt, or read to scorn. [ Scott ]

He that lives ill, fear follows him. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Great fear is concealed under daring. [ Lucan ]

In extreme danger fear feels no pity. [ Caesar ]

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. [ Cicero ]

Twist ye, twine ye! even so,
Mingle shades of joy and woe,
Hope, and fear, and peace, and strife,
In the thread of human life. [ Scott ]

Dust, to its narrow house beneath!
Soul, to its place on high!
They that have seen thy look in death,
No more may fear to die. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

True joy is only hope put out of fear. [ Lord Brooke ]

Fear though blind is swift and strong. [ Dr. Mackay ]

Superstition is but the fear of belief. [ Lady Blessington ]

Where no hope is left, is left no fear. [ Milton ]

Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind. [ Virgil ]

Noiseless as fear in a wide wilderness. [ Keats ]

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

Neither fear nor wish for your last day. [ Mart ]

Superstition is a senseless fear of God. [ Cicero ]

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be. [ Lactantius ]

Courage leads to heaven; fear, to death. [ Seneca ]

In time we hate that which we often fear [ William Shakespeare ]

Fear in the world first created the gods. [ Statius ]

Such tricks hath strong imagination,
That, if it would but apprehend some joy,
It comprehends some bringer of that joy;
Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush supposed a bear. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer. [ William Shakespeare ]

The world's judgment is unswayed by fear. [ St. Augustine ]

Pains to get, care to keep, fear to lose. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

And thou art terrible - the tear,
The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier;
And ail we know, or dream, or fear
Of agony, are thine. [ Halleck ]

Sacred religion! Mother of Form and Fear! [ Samuel Daniel ]

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. [ Pope ]

All the arms of England will not arm fear. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Superstition: a foolish fear of the Deity. [ La Bruyere ]

To grief there is a limit; not so to fear. [ Bacon ]

A coward's fear can make a coward valiant. [ Proverb ]

What my love is, proof hath made you know;
And as my love is sized, my fear is so. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Sc. 2 ]

Too much fear cuts all the nerves asunder. [ Proverb ]

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear
To be we know not what, we know not where. [ Dryden ]

Better hazard once than be always in fear; [ Proverb ]

Distrust and darkness of a future state
Make poor mankind so fearful of their fate,
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear
To be we know not what, we know not where. [ John Dryden ]

No greater hell than to be a slave to fear. [ Ben Jonson ]

Cowards fear to die; but courage stout,
Rather than live in snuff, will be put out. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

Of all base passions fear is most accurs'd. [ William Shakespeare ]

We must not stint
Our necessary actions, in the fear
To cope malicious censurers; which ever,
As ravenous fishes, do a vessel follow
That is new trimmed, but benefit no further
Than vainly longing. [ William Shakespeare, Henry VIII ]

Whistling to keep myself from being afraid. [ Dryden ]

Farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear;
Farewell remorse; all good to me is lost;
Evil, be thou my good! [ Milton ]

'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. [ Pericles ]

High minds, of native pride and force.
Most deeply feel thy pangs. Remorse!
Fear, for their scourge, mean villains have,
Thou art the torturer of the brave! [ Scott ]

Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt. [ Johnson ]

They that fear an overthrow are half-beaten. [ Proverb ]

A song to the oak, the brave old oak,
Who hath ruled in the greenwood long;
Here's health and renown to his broad,
green crown, And his fifty arms so strong.
There's fear in his frown when the goes down,
And the fire in the West fades out;
And he showeth his might on a wild midnight,
When the storms through his branches shout. [ H. F. Chorley ]

The fear of the Lord is the fountain of life. [ Bible ]

Yet is there one more cursed than they all.
That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie,
Which eats the heart and feeds upon the gall,
Turning all love's delight to misery.
Through fear of losing his felicity. [ Spenser ]

The hour conceal'd and so remote the fear,
Death still draws nearer, never seeming near. [ Pope ]

What can they suffer that do not fear to die? [ Plutarch ]

Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude. [ Goldsmith ]

Less base the fear of death than fear of life. [ Young ]

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. [ Sewell ]

Love will find its way
Through paths where wolves would fear to prey. [ Byron ]

It is true fortitude to stand firm against
All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die
In fear to suffer more calamity. [ Massinger ]

All fear, but fear of heaven, betrays a guilt,
And guilt is villainy. [ N. Lee ]

Air, earth, and seas, obey'd the Almighty nod,
And with a general fear confess'd the God. [ Dryden ]

Who swerves from innocence, who makes divorce
Of that serene companion - a good name.
Recovers not his loss; but walks with shame,
With doubt, with fear, and haply with remorse. [ Wordsworth ]

There was a laughing devil in his sneer,
That raised emotions both of rage and fear;
And where his frown of hatred darkly fell,
Hope withering fled, and mercy sighed farewell. [ Byron ]

Honest men fear neither the light nor the dark. [ Proverb ]

O happiness of blindness! now no beauty
Inflames my lust; no other's goods my envy,
Or misery my pity; no man's wealth
Draws my respect; nor poverty my scorn,
Yet still I see enough! man to himself
Is a large prospect, raised above the level
Of his low creeping thoughts; if then I have
A world within myself, that world shall be
My empire; there I'll reign, commanding freely,
And willingly obeyed, secure from fear
Of foreign forces, or domestic treasons. [ Denham ]

The wise and active conquer difficulties,
By daring to attempt them. Sloth and folly
Shiver and shrink at sight of toil and hazards,
And make the impossibility they fear. [ Rowe ]

Fear keeps the garden better than the gardener. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Beneath the loveliest dream there coils a fear. [ T. Watts ]

Timely and wise fear of danger prevents danger. [ Proverb ]

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. [ Bible ]

To have money is a fear, not to have it a grief. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Love, hope, fear, faith — these make humanity;
These are its sign and note and character. [ Robert Browning ]

An honest woman is the one we fear to compromise. [ Balzac ]

Life with all it yields of joy and woe,
And hope and fear,
Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,
How love might be, hath been indeed, and is. [ Browning ]

He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong. [ Bovee ]

Cowards die many times before their deaths:
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come. [ William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar ]

We believe easily what we fear of what we desire. [ La Fontaine ]

Those only are despicable who fear to be despised. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark. [ Bacon ]

The guilt being great, the fear doth still exceed. [ William Shakespeare ]

That is not virtue from which fear approacheth us. [ Hitopadesa ]

All temptations are founded either in hope or fear. [ Proverb ]

If you despise king Log, you shall fear king Crane. [ Proverb ]

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats. [ Corneille ]

A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear. [ George MacDonald ]

Gold, when present, causes fear; when absent, grief. [ Proverb ]

Some injure all they fear, and hate all they injure. [ Proverb ]

Men fear death, as children fear going into the dark. [ Proverb ]

Women should despise slander, and fear to provoke it. [ Mlle. de Scuderi ]

Where love is great the littlest doubts are fear;
Where little fears grow great, great love grows there. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Sc. 2 ]

Cruelty is a tyrant that is always attended with fear. [ Proverb ]

Too busy with the crowded hour to fear to live or die. [ Emerson ]

Forgive and forget! - why, the world would be lonely,
The garden a wilderness left to deform.
If the flowers but remember'd the chilling winds only.
And the fields gave no verdure for fear of the storm. [ Charles Swain ]

The Alphabet Of Success

Attend carefully to details.
Be prompt in all things.
Consider well, then decide positively.
Dare to do right, fear to do wrong.
Endure trials patiently.
Fight life's battles bravely.
Go not into the society of the vicious.
Hold your integrity sacred.
Injure not another's reputation.
Join hands only with the virtuous.
Keep your mind free from evil thoughts.
Lie not for any consideration.
Make few special acquaintances.
Never try to appear what you are not.
Observe good manners.
Pay your debts promptly.
Question not the verity of a friend.
Respect the desires of your parents.
Sacrifice money rather than principle.
Touch not, taste not, handle not intoxicating drinks.
Use your leisure for improvement.
Venture not upon the threshold of wrong.
Watch carefully over your passions.
Xtend to everyone a kindly greeting.
Yield not to discouragement.
Zealously labor for the right, and success is certain. [ Ladies Home Journal ]

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. [ Coleridge ]

Gold, father of flatterers, of pain and care begot,
A fear it is to have thee, and a pain to have thee not. [ Palladas ]

Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Whither the fates lead virtue will follow without fear. [ Lucan ]

Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He lives the life of a hare, (i.e. always full of fear). [ Proverb ]

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. [ Burke ]

There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear. [ Napoleon ]

Fear keeps and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Amongst true friends there is no fear of losing anything. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

The craven's fear is but selfishness, like his merriment. [ Whittier ]

The fear that kills, and hope that is unwilling to be fed. [ Wordsworth ]

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long. [ Madame de Sevigne ]

Love should dare everything when it has everything to fear. [ Saurin ]

For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

If you can abide a curst wife, you need not fear any company. [ Proverb ]

There is nothing that fear or hope does not make men believe. [ Vauvenargues ]

You may offer a bribe without fear of having your throat cut. [ Proverb ]

The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be in sorrow. [ Johnson ]

He who does not love flowers has lost all love and fear of God. [ Ludwig Tieck ]

The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear Him. [ Bible ]

You should not fear, nor yet should you wish for your last day. [ Martial ]

No party should fear to go before the people for their decision. [ Robert Yates ]

Nature is indeed adequate to Fear, but to Reverence not adequate. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Fear is far more painful to cowardice than death to true courage. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

By humility and the fear of the Lord are riches, honor, and life. [ Bible ]

I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not. [ Saadi ]

The past gives us regret, the present sorrow, and the future fear. [ Mme. de Lambert ]

Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences. [ Pliny ]

In extreme danger, fear turns a deaf ear to every feeling of pity. [ Caesar ]

The good need fear no law; it is his safety, and the bad man's awe. [ Ben Jonson ]

The farthest from the fear are often Dearest to the stroke of fate. [ Young ]

Superstition is but the fear of belief; religion is the confidence. [ Lady Blessington ]

Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing. [ Longfellow ]

Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear. [ Browning ]

Trust no friend with that you need; fear him as if he were your enemy. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that can abide a curst wife need not fear what company he lives in. [ Proverb ]

Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. [ Bible ]

Love is a superstition that doth fear the idol which itself hath made. [ Sir T. Overbury ]

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full of the milk of human kindness. [ William Shakespeare ]

Don't put too fine a point to your wit, for fear it should get blunted. [ Cervantes ]

Alas! the breast that inly bleeds has nought to fear from outward blow. [ Byron ]

You are so tender, you dare not be hanged for fear of galling your neck. [ Proverb ]

Fear of hypocrites and fools is the great plague of thinking and writing. [ J. Janin ]

Fear can keep a man out of danger, but courage only can support him in it. [ Proverb ]

But look for ruin when a coward wins; For fear and cruelty are ever twins. [ Aleyn ]

As hope and fear alternate chase Our course through life's uncertain race. [ Scott ]

The most wretched fortune is safe; for there is no fear of anything worse. [ Ovid ]

To fear is easy, but grievous; to reverence is difficult, but satisfactory. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Prosperities can only be enjoyed by those who fear not at all to lose them. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

We meet in society many attractive women whom we would fear to make our wives. [ D'Harleville ]

Objects imperfectly discerned take forms from the hope or fear of the beholder. [ Johnson ]

The multitude unawed is insolent; Once seized with fear, contemptible and vain. [ Mallet ]

Do you fear to trust the word of a man whose honesty you have seen in business? [ Terence ]

The fear of the Lord tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied. [ Bible ]

Fear is my vassal, when I frown he flies; A hundred times in life a coward dies. [ Marston ]

We must not stint our necessary actions in the fear to cope malicious censurers. [ William Shakespeare ]

The precepts of philosophy effect not the least benefit to one confirmed in fear. [ Hitopadesa ]

Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, And death is but the sounder sleep. [ Beaumont ]

To fear death is the way to live long; to be afraid of death is to be long a dying. [ Quarles ]

The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil. [ Johnson ]

Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself. [ Victor Hugo ]

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done, as the fear of consequences. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Fear and sorrow are the true characters and inseparable companions of most melancholy. [ Burton ]

What we call conscience, in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the constable. [ Bovee ]

If you in every thing fear, you shall not do well, you will come to do ill in all things. [ Proverb ]

It is better to keep children to their duty by a sense of honor and by kindness than by fear. [ Terence ]

Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind. [ Swift ]

Fear to do base, unworthy things, is valor; if they be done to us, to suffer them is valor too. [ Ben Jonson ]

Superstition is an unreasoning fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of the gods. [ Cicero ]

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. [ Bible ]

We hope to grow old, and yet we fear old age; that is, we are willing to live, and afraid to die. [ La Bruyfere ]

The devil never assails a man except he finds him either void of knowledge or of the fear of God. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes. [ Aaron Hill ]

The loves that meet in paradise shall cast out fear; and paradise hath room for you and me and all. [ Christina G. Rossetti ]

All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left is left no fear. [ Milton ]

Fear is described by Spenser to ride in armour, at the clashing whereof he looks afeared of himself. [ Peacham ]

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune. [ F. Quarles ]

There is nothing in the universe I fear but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it. [ Mary Lyon ]

Let others seek security. My most wretched fortune is secure; for there is no fear of worse to follow. [ Ovid ]

It is the strange fate of man that even in the greatest evils the fear of worse continues to haunt him. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Love is eternally awake, never tired with labour, nor oppressed with affliction, nor discouraged by fear. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair through fear alone. [ Tacitus ]

The only rational liberty is that which is born of subjection, reared in the fear of God and the love of man. [ W. G. Simms ]

He who knows what it is to enjoy God will dread His loss; he who has seen His face will fear to see His back. [ Richard Alleine ]

There is nothing more tiresome than the conversation of a lover who has nothing to desire, and nothing to fear. [ Mme. de Sartory ]

The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. [ Bible ]

It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it, to be in sorrow. [ Johnson ]

Scripture says, The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. I say, The beginning of wisdom is the fear of man. [ Chamfort ]

Love, like fire, cannot subsist without continual motion, and ceases to exist as soon as it ceases to hope or fear. [ La Roche ]

Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble. [ Phillips Brooks ]

Since love teaches how to trick the tricksters, how much reason have we to fear it - we who are poor simple creatures! [ Marguerite de Valois ]

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end. [ Madame de Stael ]

There is none but he whose being I do fear; and, under him, my genius is rebuked, as it is said Antony's was by Caesar. [ William Shakespeare ]

We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves. Fear, desire, and hope are still pushing us on towards the future. [ Montaigne ]

God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

The extreme pleasure we take in talking of ourselves should make us fear that we give very little to those who listen to us. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

A friend gilds the scene of life with sunshine, seasons the cup of plenty, assuages fear, quickens hope, and animates pleasure. [ T. L. O'Beirne ]

Never did poesy appear so full of heaven to me as when I saw how it pierced through pride and fear to the lives of coarsest men. [ Lowell ]

Mediocre people fear exaltation for the harm that may result from it; though it is something that can not be communicated to them. [ Mme. de Krudener ]

I am above being injured by fortune; though she snatch away much, more will remain to me. The blessings I now enjoy transcend fear. [ Ov ]

We instinctively abhor calumny as we do a snake, for fear of its venom; but, is our aversion to it so great when it attacks others? [ De Finod ]

Men of strong affections are jealous of their own genius. They fear lest they should be loved for a quality, and not for themselves. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice. [ David Dudley Field ]

The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness. [ Hazlitt ]

To despond is to be ungrateful beforehand. Be not looking for evil. Often thou drainest the gall of fear while evil is passing thy dwelling. [ Tupper ]

The weariest and most loathed worldly life that age, ache, penury, and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise to what we fear of death. [ William Shakespeare ]

The way of the superior man is threefold - virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear. [ Confucius ]

An honorable name or a good reputation is an excellent protection against wrong-doing: we fear to compromise it more through vanity than virtue.

Hope. It is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective, a lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is fine, as long as it's contained. [ The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins (President Snow) ]

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. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Even out of a cloudless heaven the flaming thunderbolt may strike; therefore in thy days of joy have a fear of the spiteful neighbourhood of misfortune. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

I'm proof against that word "failure." I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. [ George Eliot ]

Clemency, which we make a virtue of, proceeds sometimes from vanity, sometimes from indolence, often from fear, and almost always from a mixture of all three. [ Rochefoucauld ]

No man will harbor any fear of degradation in the ranks of literature, because he has devoted his portion of ability and learning to the drudgery of a dictionary. [ C. Richardson ]

Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work. [ Fielding ]

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. [ Horace Mann ]

Certainly the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin, and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto Nature, is weak. [ Bacon ]

The heart never grows better by age, I fear rather worse; always harder. A young liar will be an old one; and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older. [ Chesterfield ]

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again; wisely improve the present, it is thine; go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

All was ended now, the hope and the fear and the sorrow, all the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, fill the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

There is a burden of care in getting riches, fear in keeping them, temptation in using them, guilt in abusing them, sorrow in losing them, and a burden of account at last to be given up concerning them. [ Matthew Henry ]

There should be no fear. We are protected, and we will always be protected. We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement. And most importantly, we will be protected by god. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

There are three kinds of praise, - that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude. [ Colton ]

A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from the door, or at arm's length, but he places it, by heaping wealth upon wealth, at a sublime distance! [ Lamb ]

When the passengers gallop by as if fear made them speedy, the cur follows them with an open mouth; let them walk by in confident neglect, and the dog will not stir at all; it is a weakness that every creature takes advantage of. [ J. Beaumont ]

Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry in all kinds, - epic, tragedy, lyric. If we can touch the imagination, we serve them; they will never forget it. [ Emerson ]

Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in the imagination; you have defined it perfectly; it is vexation which causes it to spring up, and fear that supports it. [ Madame de Sevigne ]

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears otherwise gives advantage to the danger; it is less folly not to endeavor the prevention of the evil thou fearest than to fear the evil which thy endeavor cannot prevent. [ Quarles ]

It is the passions which do and undo everything; if reason ruled, nothing would get on. It is said that pilots fear beyond everything those halcyon seas where the vessel obeys not the helm, and that they prefer wind at the risk of storms. [ Fontenelle ]

When a child can be brought to tears, not from fear of punishment, but from repentance for his offence, he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from grief at one's own conduct, be sure there is an angel nestling in the bosom. [ Horace Mann ]

Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquillity and peace. [ Cicero ]

Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there. [ Rutherford ]

It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices. [ Beecher ]

Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first. Why is not custom nature? I suspect that this nature itself is but a first custom, as custom is a second nature. [ Pascal ]

Other parts of the body assist the speaker, but these speak themselves. By them we ask, we promise, we invoke, we dismiss, we threaten, we entreat, we deprecate; we express fear, joy, grief, our doubts, our assent, our penitence; we show moderation, profusion; we mark number and time. [ Quintilian ]

Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty, too. I would not despair unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity. [ Collier ]

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal souls, if we imbue them with principles, with the just fear of God and love of fellow men, we engrave on those tablets something which will brighten all eternity. [ Daniel Webster ]

Fear can sometimes be a useful emotion. For instance, let's say you're an astronaut on the moon and you fear that your partner has been turned into Dracula. The next time he goes out for the moon pieces, wham!, you just slam the door behind him and blast off. He might call you on the radio and say he's not Dracula, but you just say, Think again, bat man. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Living authors, therefore, are usually bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen - for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well. [ Colton ]

Superstition is the fear of a spirit whose passions and acts are those of a man, who is present in some places, and not in others; who makes some places holy, and not others; who is kind to one person, and unkind to another; who is pleased or angry according to the degree of attention you pay him, or praise you refuse him; who is hostile generally to human pleasure, but may be bribed by sacrificing a part of that pleasure into permitting the rest. [ John Ruskin ]

The little I have seen of the world teaches me to look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. When I take the history of one poor heart that has sinned and suffered, and represent to myself the struggles and temptations it has passed through, the brief pulsations of joy, the feverish inquietude of hope and fear, the pressure of want, the desertion of friends. I would fain leave the erring soul of my fellowman with Him from whose hand it came. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

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 ]

fear in Scrabble®

The word fear is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters fear:

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The 152 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In fear

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fear in Words With Friends™

The word fear is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters fear:

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The 163 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In fear

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Word Growth involving fear

Shorter words in fear

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Longer words containing fear

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