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Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
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.
I do not like 'but yet, it does allay
The good precedence: fie upon 'but yet,'
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I do not like 'but yet, it does allay
The good precedence: fie upon 'but yet,'
'But yet' is as a jailer to bring forth
Some monstrous malefactor.
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.
A weak man has doubts before a decision; a strong man has them afterwards.
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a read more
Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing.
Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.
- Frances R. Havergal,
Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.
- Frances R. Havergal,
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
To be once in doubt
Is once to be resolved.
To be once in doubt
Is once to be resolved.
In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live read more
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