"excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius."
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"Doubters will doubt to the end."
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"Both of them were very good and kind - the one who went to church and the one who didn't. And no doubt from them I learned to like both Christians and sinners equally well."
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"Indecision, doubt and fear. The members of this unholy trio are closely related; where one is found, the other two are close at hand."
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"The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool."
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"Facts do not find their way into the world in which our beliefs reside; they did not produce our beliefs, they do not destroy them; they may inflict on them the most constant refutations without weakening them, and an avalanche of afflictions or ailments succeeding one another without interruption in a family will not make it doubt the goodness of its God or the talent of its doctor."
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"Without a doubt, Ozzy is the craziest person I've ever met. Son of Sam is a close second."
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"Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings."
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"Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion."
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"Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight."
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"sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody."
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"What doubt can you have of the Creator when you behold His creation?... Who has decked the heavenly firmament with its stars? Who has clothed the earth in its beauty? How could it be without the creator?"
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"No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid."
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"Only great pain is, as the teacher of great suspicion, the ultimate liberator of the spirit...I doubt whether such pain improves us-but I do know it deepens us."
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"I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him."
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"If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own."
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"It may be healthier to eat beer and franks with cheer and thanks, than to eat sprouts and bread with doubts and dread."
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"When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God's Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem."
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"There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair."
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"This is our moment...while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can."
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