When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.
When you fear a foe, fear crushes your strength and this weakness gives strength to your opponents.
Fear no more the frown of the great,
Thou art past the tyrant's stroke:
Care no more to clothe and eat;
To thee the reed is as the oak:
The sceptre, learning, physic, must
All follow this, and come to dust.
I fear, too early; for my mind misgives
Some consequence, yet hanging in the stars,
Shall bitterly begin his fearful date
With this night's revels and expire the term
Of a despised life, clos'd in my breast,
By some vile forfeit of untimely death.
Fear no more the lightning-flash,
Nor the all-dread thunder-stone;
Fear not slander, censure rash;
Thou hast finished joy and moan;
All lovers young, all lovers must
Consign to thee, and come to dust.
How all the other passions fleet to air,
As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embrac'd despair,
And shudd'ring fear, and green-ey'd jealousy!
Man's nature cannot carry
Th' affliction nor the fear.
Faith, sir, you need not fear.
But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.
He nor that affable familiar ghost
Which nightly gulls him with intelligence,
As victors of my silence cannot boast;
I was not sick of any fear from thence.
Why I should fear I know not,
Since guiltiness I know not; but yet I feel I fear.
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© 2020 Inspirational Stories