The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By the time we are women, fear is as familiar to us as air. It is our element. We live in it, we inhale it, we exhale it, and most... of the time we do not even notice it. Instead of "I am afraid," we say, "I don't want to," or "I don't know how," or "I can't."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nature is a setting that fits equally well a comic or a mourning piece. In good health, the air is a cordial of incredible virtue.... Crossing a bare common, in snow puddles, at twilight, under a clouded sky, without having in my thoughts any occurrence of special good fortune, I have enjoyed a perfect exhilaration. I am glad to the brink of fear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey,... And let it keep one shape, till custom make it Their perch and not their terror.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But cruel are the times when we are traitors And do not know ourselves, when we hold rumor... From what we fear, yet know not what we fear, But float upon a wild and violent sea Each way and move.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You are our surety to immortal life, God's hatred of the universal stain--... The heritage, O Fear, of ancient strife Compounded with the tissue of the vein.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the committee from Plymouth had purchased the territory of Eastham of the Indians, "it was demanded, who laid claim to Billin...gsgate?" which was understood to be all that part of the Cape north of what they had purchased. "The answer was, there was not any who owned it. 'Then,' said the committee, 'that land is ours.' The Indians answered, that it was." This was a remarkable assertion and admission. The Pilgrims appear to have regarded themselves as Not Any's representatives. Perhaps this was the first instance of that quiet way of "speaking for" a place not yet occupied, or at least not improved as much as it may be, which their descendants have practiced, and are still practicing so extensively. Not Any seems to have been the sole proprietor of all America before the Yankees. But history says, that when the Pilgrims had held the lands of Billingsgate many years, at length, "appeared an Indian, who styled himself Lieutenant Anthony," who laid claim to them, and of him they bought them. Who knows but a Lieutenant Anthony may be knocking at the door of the White House some day? At any rate, I know that if you hold a thing unjustly, there will surely be the devil to pay at last.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »