My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man that function
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My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man that function
Is smothered in surmise and nothing is
But what is not.

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall
with a sudden crash.
[Lat., Omnia sunt read more

All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall
with a sudden crash.
[Lat., Omnia sunt hominum tenui pendentia filo:
Et subito casu, quae valuere, ruunt.]

Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a read more

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will read more

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.

Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.

We demand guaranteed rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty.