The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world
I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
The problem of living is at bottom an economic one. And this alone is bad enough, even in a period of so-called "normalcy. " But living has been considerably complicated of late in various ways - by war, by questions of personal liberty, and by "menaces" of one kind or another.
Instant-doomsday hyperbole caused the world's attention to focus on the hypothetical threat of global warming to the exclusion of environmental menaces that are real, palpable, and awful right now.
Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.
No duty, however, binds us to these so-called laws, whose corrupting influence menaces what is noblest in our being.
The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.
Did men but know that there was a fixed limit to their woes, they would be able, in some measure, to defy the religious fictions and menaces of the poets; but now, since we must fear eternal punishment at death, there is no mode, no means, of resisting them.
