“Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.”
September 7, 1851
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1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitio… 1817–1862Related quotes
“Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report.”
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations
As quoted in Our Precarious Habitat (1973) by Melvin A. Benarde, p. v
“It wasn't atheism and corruption they feared, but inquiry.”
Source: The World We Want (2000), Chapter 2, Rights And Duties, p. 26.
“Henceforth the majesty of God revere;
Fear Him, and you have nothing else to fear.”
Answer to a Gentleman who apologized to the Author for Swearing. Compare: "Je crains Dieu, cher Abner, et n'ai point d'autre crainte" (translated: "I fear God, dear Abner, and I have no other fear"), Jean Racine, Athalie, act i. sc. 1 (1639–1699); "From Piety, whose soul sincere/ Fears God, and knows no other fear", W. Smyth, Ode for the Installation of the Duke of Gloucester as Chancellor of Cambridge.
Wir Deutsche fürchten Gott, aber sonst nichts in der Welt - und die Gottesfurcht ist es schon, die uns den Frieden lieben und pflegen lässt.
Speech to the Reichstag (6 February 1888) reichstagsprotokolle.de 1887/88,2 http://www.reichstagsprotokolle.de/Blatt3_k7_bsb00018648_00043.html p. 733 (D)
1880s
[2012, Echoes of Perennial Wisdom, World Wisdom, 30, 978-1-93659700-0]
God, Reverential fear and love
Notre repentir n'est pas tant un regret du mal que nous avons fait, qu'une crainte de celui qui nous en peut arriver.
Maxim 180.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
Foreign Policy Congress in Milan, June 1938. Quoted in "The decline of the intellectual" - Page 189 - by Thomas Molnar - 1994.