Robert Burton - Fear Quotes

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The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience.

Robert Burton

Melancholy and despair, though often, do not always concur; there is much difference: melancholy fears without a cause, this upon great occasion; melancholy is caused by fear and grief, but this torment procures them and all extremity of bitterness.

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As if they had heard that enchanted horn of Astolpho, that English duke in Ariosto, which never sounded but all his auditors were mad, and for fear ready to make away [with] themselves … they are a company of giddy-heads, afternoon men.

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