To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else.
The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
You know what 'DOUBT' stands for? It stands for 'Debate On Understanding Bewildersome Thoughts.'
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.
My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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