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What wound did ever heal but my degrees?
What wound did ever heal but my degrees?
Fanaticism is . . . overcompensation for doubt.
Fanaticism is . . . overcompensation for doubt.
Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create
anger where we never meant harm; and read more
Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create
anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the
thorns in our cushion.
- William Makepeace Thackeray,
The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
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.
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.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
To be, or not to be--that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
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To be, or not to be--that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep--
No more--and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to.
Doubt is the father of invention.
Doubt is the father of invention.
