Indexed in the public record
“He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch To gain or lose it all.”
Provenance
- Source:
- My Dear and only Love.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 268b8f91fde9ecea23193baea08888f8fcf4346f215478922c99528ecbb995fb
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Related in the record
“Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“When he is forsaken, Wither'd and shaken, What can an old man do but die?”
Thomas Hood
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend…”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year, And trifles…”
Edward Young
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs; The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover…”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Grief tears his heart, and drives him to and fro In all the raging impotence of woe.”
Alexander Pope
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Said something yourself? Put it on the record — $5.
A timestamped public registration for your own line — before someone else claims it.
This is an indexed reference citation, not a legal registry entry and not a claim of ownership.