"A vocation makes us unthinking; that is its greatest blessing. For it is a bulwark behind which we are permitted to withdraw whencommonplace doubts and cares assail us."
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"Whoever deliberately attempts to insure confidentiality with another person is usually in doubt as to whether he inspires that person's confidence in him. One who is sure that he inspires confidence attaches little importance to confidentiality."
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"It is only great pain--that slow, sustained pain that takes its time, in which we are, as it were, burned with smoldering green firewood--that forces us philosophers to sink to our ultimate profundity and to do away with all the trust, everything good-natured, veil-imposing, mild and middling, on which we may have previously based our humanity. I doubt that such a pain makes us 'better'--but I know that it makes us deeper."
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"One should not go into churches if one wants to breathe pure air."
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"Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born."
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"I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest."
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"Not all the subtilties of metaphysics can make me doubt a moment of the immortality of the soul, and of a beneficent Providence. I feel it, I believe it, I desire it, I hope it, and will defend it to my last breath."
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"Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization."
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"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself."
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"With knowledge grows doubt."
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"Though the water running in the fountain be every ones, yet who can doubt, but that in the pitcher is his only who drew it out?"
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"I doubt not, but from self-evident Propositions, by necessary Consequences, as incontestable as those in Mathematics, the measures of right and wrong might be made out."
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"There can be no doubt but that he who has the most materials has the greatest means of invention."
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"No doubt any connoisseur, any collector, some bored old millionaire when he shows off his treasures, is seeking in your praise the resurrection and the life."
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"Negative minds full of fear and doubt produce negative lives, which can ultimately destroy your life."
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"it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason."
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"A woman spent all Christmas Day in a telephone box without ringing anyone. If someone comes to phone, she leaves the box, then resumes her place afterwards. No one calls her either, but from a window in the street, someone watched her all day, no doubt since they had nothing better to do. The Christmas syndrome."
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"To know much is often the cause of doubting more."
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"When in doubt, lean to the side of # mercy ."
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"Inter have bought the finished article and there's no doubt he can keep improving."
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