“Fear puts an end to openness of manner; fear leads to concealment; fear sows the seed of much hypocrisy, and leads to many a lie.”
Source: The Upper Room (1888), Ch. XVI: "The Duties of Parents"
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“It will lead to nothing, I fear, sir”
Remarked to William Palmer, on the eve of his 1840-1 journey to Russia to improve Anglican-Orthodox relations. The trip reaped little success; quoted in Notes of a Visit to the Russian Church in the Years 1840, 1841, by William Palmer, 1882, p. 10.
“Often the fear of one evil leads us into a worse.”
Souvent la peur d'un mal nous conduit dans un pire.
Canto I, l. 64
The Art of Poetry (1674)
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 171
Why I Am An Agnostic (1929)
Source: Why I Am An Agnostic and Other Essays
“Who sows fear, reaps weapons.”
About Tolerance (1977)
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“A man fears that conflict with his wife will lead to less intimacy, not more intimacy.”
Source: Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000), p. 17.
“He ne'er is crown'd
With immortality, who fears to follow
Where airy voices lead.”
Bk. II, l. 211
Endymion (1818)