Quote by William Shenstone
Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our unea

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it. – William Shenstone

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A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood. – William Shenstone

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The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. – William Shenstone

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The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one. – William Shenstone

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The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow. – Geraldine Brooks

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The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. – Joseph Campbell

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It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence. – Socrates

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