“As dreadful as the Manichean god,
Adored through fear, strong only to destroy.”
Source: The Task (1785), Book V, The Winter Morning Walk, Line 444.
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William Cowper 174
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“Two things cause people to be destroyed: fear of poverty and seeking superiority through pride.”
Majlisi, Bihārul Anwār, vol. 72, p. 39
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Georgicks
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 277.
II–II, q. 25, art. 5
Summa Theologica (1265–1274)
“The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.”
Maxim 511
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
