Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, - there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.
But beef is rare within these oxless isles; Goat's flesh there is, no doubt, and kid, and mutton; And, when a holiday upon them smiles, A joint upon their barbarous spits they put on.
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
I doubt sometimes whether a quiet and unagitated life would have suited me - yet I sometimes long for it.
When people say, "I've told you fifty times," They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, "I've written fifty rhymes," They make you dread that they'll recite them too; In gangs of fifty, thieves commit their crimes; At fifty love for love is rare, 't is true, but then, no doubt, it equally as true is, a good deal may be bought for fifty Louis.
And Doubt and Discord step 'twixt thine and thee.
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