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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.
To be once in doubt
Is once to be resolved.
To be once in doubt
Is once to be resolved.
Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.
Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried
Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried
When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts
nothing.
When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts
nothing.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
He would not, with a peremptory tone,
Assert the nose upon his face his own.
He would not, with a peremptory tone,
Assert the nose upon his face his own.
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.