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Doubt
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“He tended to speak in doubtful tones, as if he weren't absolutely certain he was telling the truth.”
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“... doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.”
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“It is when you doubt yourself that you are grown up.”
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“Doubt remains a luxury I won't do without.”
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“Writing ... keeps me from believing everything I read.”
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“... where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?”
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“The believer who has never doubted will hardly convert a doubter.”
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“... doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.”
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“Oh dear — Oh dear — where are my people? With whom have I been happiest? With nobody in particular. It has all been mush of a mushness.”
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“... a doubt would suddenly dart out of her, like a mouse from its hole.”
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“... her doubts are her sop to conscience. Like the person who takes a third helping and says with shining eyes, 'This is sheer greed!'”
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“I felt a Cleaving in my Mind — / As if my Brain had split — / I tried to match it — Seam by Seam — / But could not make them fit.”
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“Like so many well-meaning people, he was given to doubts when they could no longer serve any useful purpose.”
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“Faith and doubt both are needed — not as antagonists but working side by side — to take us around the unknown curve.”
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“I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe.”
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“In health, in the bustle of living, it was easy to believe in heaven and a life to come. But when the blow fell, and those you loved passed into the great Silence, where you could not get at them, or they at you, then doubts, aching doubts took possession of one.”
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“But hers was one of those inconvenient natures which trust blindly or not at all: once worked on by a doubt or a suspicion, they are never able to shake themselves free of it again.”
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“Doubt is a necessity of the mind, faith of the heart.”
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“There is hardly anything that an ingenious mind cannot bring itself to doubt, granted sufficient industry and application.”
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“Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.”
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“It is the small doubts of timid souls that accomplish their ruin. It is the narrow vision, the fear and trembling hesitation, that constitute defeat.”
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“A quart of doubt to an ounce of truth is the safest brew.”
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“I'm often wrong, but never in doubt.”
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“The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts are not profitable. They yield wisdom, but wisdom is not profitable. I find pleasure in doubt, but let's face it, my pleasure is not very profitable. To me, the truth is that things mean many things at once, and all of them opposed to each other, and all of them true.”
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“To Death I yield, but not to Doubt, who slays before!”
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“It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment.”
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“The absence of doubt will turn humans into beasts.”
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“... kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way ...”
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“Doubt is love's murderer.”