He was good-natured to a degree of weakness, even to tears, upon the slightest occasions. Exceedingly timorous, both personally an...d politically, dreading the least innovation, and keeping, with a scrupulous timidity, in the beaten track of business as having the safest bottom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Conservatism, ever more timorous and narrow, disgusts the children, and drives them for a mouthful of fresh air into radicalism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And long shall timorous fancy see The painted chief, and pointed spear,... And Reason's self shall bow the knee To shadows and delusions here.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It does not follow, because our difficulties are stupendous, because there are some souls timorous enough to doubt the validity an...d effectiveness of our ideals and our system, that we must turn to a state controlled or state directed social or economic system in order to cure our troubles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer;... Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike; Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend; Dreading e'en fools, by flatterers besieged, And so obliging, that he ne'er obliged; Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »