And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge, as their great Creator who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings and a desire to know. But besides this they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible divine right to the most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge, I mean of the characters and conduct of their rulers.
Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.
My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded.
He is much to be dreaded who stands in dread of poverty.
She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone.
Well, you've done it now," was her sisterly opening shot. Jaine rubbed between her eyebrows; a definite headache was forming. After the exchange with David, she waited to see where this one was going. "I won't be able to hold up my head in church. " "Really? Oh, Shelley, I'm so sorry," Jaine said sweetly. "I didn't realize you have the dreaded Limp Neck disease. When were you diagnosed?
The difference between an unconverted and a converted man is not that the one has sins and the other has none; but that the one takes part with his cherished sins against a dreaded God and the other takes part with a reconciled God against his hated sins.
If God put the rainbows right in the clouds themselves, each one of us in the direst and dullest and most dreaded and dreary moments can see a possibility of hope. . . Each one of us has the chance to be a rainbow in somebody's cloud.
No! no arresting the vast wheel of time, That round and round still turns with onward might, Stern, dragging thousands to the dreaded night Of an unknown hereafter.
Relieved because what I dreaded most in the whole world was going to happen and I wouldn’t have to live with it anymore—the fear. There is the relief of finally not being alone and the relief of being alone when no one can take anything away from you. Here she was, my beautiful fear. Shiny as crystal lace frost.
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.
Hidden evils are most dreaded.
The ancients dreaded death: the Christian can only fear dying.
A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.
Temperate, sincere, and intelligent inquiry and discussion are only to be dreaded by the advocates of error. The truth need not fear them.
There is something still more to be dreaded than a Jesuit and that is a Jesuitess.
I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.
Chastity seems to have come as a late development. What the primitive maiden dreaded was not the loss of her virginity but a reputation for sterility.