“How is it appropriate to feel? she thought. Only humans dread. Dread is appropriate to nothing. It’s the surplus of animal fear, it’s never indicated, it’s nothing but itself.”
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“And let the fear and dread of you be upon all of the animals of the earth.”
Clearly, fear and dread were prescribed for the animals, but evidently it was forbidden among humans. By nature a human is superior to a brute animal, but not other humans.
Source: The Book of Pastoral Rule, p.62
“Innocence has nothing to dread.”
L'innocence enfin n'a rien à redouter.
Hippolyte, act III, scene VI.
Phèdre (1677)
“The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.”
Maxim 511
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
“The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.”
“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.
Clinging to the Wreckage : A Part of Life (1982), p. 183
Christian Nestell Bovee, in Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume I, p. 124
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Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume I, p. 124.