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To be once in doubt
Is once to be resolved.
To be once in doubt
Is once to be resolved.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have read more
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
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.
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man.
To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man.
Fain would I but dare not; I dare, and yet I may not;
I may, although I care not read more
Fain would I but dare not; I dare, and yet I may not;
I may, although I care not for pleasure when I play not.
Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win,
By fearing to read more
Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win,
By fearing to attempt.
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.