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I follow my law and fulfil it all duly--and look! when your
doubt runneth high--
North points to read more
I follow my law and fulfil it all duly--and look! when your
doubt runneth high--
North points to the needle!
Uncertain ways unsafest are,
And doubt a greater mischief than despair.
Uncertain ways unsafest are,
And doubt a greater mischief than despair.
But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears.
But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears.
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow.
Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is -- it is her shadow.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people read more
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his read more
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
The wound of peace is surety,
Surety secure; but modest doubt is called
The beacon of the read more
The wound of peace is surety,
Surety secure; but modest doubt is called
The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches
To th' bottom of the worst.
He who knows nothing, doubts nothing.
He who knows nothing, doubts nothing.
Who never doubted, never half believed.
Where doubt there truth is--'tis her shadow.
Who never doubted, never half believed.
Where doubt there truth is--'tis her shadow.
