Home / Quotes / Quote by Samuel Rush Meyrick

Quote by Samuel Rush Meyrick

“Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.”

Quote by Samuel Rush Meyrick

Author

Samuel Rush Meyrick

Samuel Rush Meyrick was a British scholar active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for his contributions to entomology, botany, and natural history. more

You May Also Like

“Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it.”

Danger Anticipation Spurs

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“So he that despairs, limits an Infinite Power to a Finite Apprehension, and measures Providence by his own little, contracted Model.”

Littles Limits Despair Models Infinite Anticipation Providence Finite Apprehension Infinite Power

Author:Robert South

“A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present.”

Men Past Affected Anticipation Things Past

Book:Ethics

Source: Ethics

“...The body is affected by the image of the thing, in the same way as if the thing were actually present.”

Ifs Way Body Affected Anticipation

Book:Ethics: with The Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and Selected Letters

Source: Ethics: with The Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and Selected Letters

“'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear.”

Blessing Expectations Dear Anticipation

Author:John Suckling

“Nothing is terrible except fear itself.”

Terrible Anticipation

Author:Francis Bacon

“Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.”

Equal Capable Insanity Anticipation Savages Thrust Frenzy

Author:Georges Bernanos

“Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.”

Men Feels Form Fear Worry Produce Daily Life Anticipation Fatigue

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“Nothing is so rash as fear; and the counsels of pusillanimity very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate, the evils from which they would fly.”

Evil Anticipation

Author:Edmund Burke

“Take stock of your fears now and see how many of them are senseless. If you are honest with yourself you will probably find most of them are groundless.”

Ifs Honest Anticipation Honest With Yourself

Author:Dale Carnegie