William Shakespeare Quotes About Doubt
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To saucy doubts and fears.
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Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.
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To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.
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Chain me with roaring bears; Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house, O'er-covered quite with dead men's rattling bones, With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls; Or bid me go into a new-made grave, And hide me with a dead man in his shroud; Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble; And I will do it without Fear or Doubt, To live an unstain'd Wife of my sweet Love.
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Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved.
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I doubt not then but innocence shall makeFalse accusation blush, and tyrannyTremble at patience.
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Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.
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O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her) Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!
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Doubting things go ill often hurts more Than to be sure they do; for certainties Either are past remedies, or, timely knowing, The remedy then born.
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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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No doubt they rose up early to observe the rite of May; and, hearing our intent, Came here in grace of our solemnity.
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Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won.
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Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.
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The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.
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O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves!
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O' thinkest thou we shall ever meet again? I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our times to come.
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Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
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Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: But yet It is our trick; nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out. — Adieu, my lord! I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, But that this folly drowns it.
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But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.
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