"I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread."
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"Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy."
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"There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds."
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"Is not dread of thirst when your well is full, the thirst that is unquenchable?"
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"We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to."
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"It is a dreadful truth that the state of having to depend solely on God is what we all dread most.... It is good of Him to force us; but dear me, how hard to feel that it is good at the time."
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"Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades."
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"You achieve strength, braveness and confidence by each experience in which you really halt to search dread during the deal with"
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"Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life."
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"He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling unforeseen wing-footed wanderer."
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"The Administration of the United States is such dread I almost feel paralyzed."
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"And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it."
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"Must one dread what others dread?"
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"Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived."
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"Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?"
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"Something did happen to me somewhere that robbed me of confidence and courage and left me with a fear of discovery and change and a positive dread of everything unknown that may occur."
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"Too many companies are happy to have workers to dread working. They have the wrong attitude because they have the wrong leadership."
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