"Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson."

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"Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson."

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"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"In the middle of the storm, the 'a' of the atheist drops!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Why do I lunge for control instead of joy?...do I thin Jesus grace too impotent to give me the full life...Whenever I am blind to joys well, isn't it because I don't believe in Gods care?"

Ann Voskamp, Canadian Author

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"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain."

Alice Walker, American Author

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"His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"Doubt is the archenemy of love. He is the scoundrel who accused her to reason."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out."

William Blake, English Poet

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"It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither."

Time

"Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing."

Nothing

"The poetical language of an age should be the current language heightened."

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"By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind."

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"What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet, Long live the weeds and the wildness yet."

World

"Religion, you know, enters very deep; in reality it is the deepest impression I have in speaking to people, that they are or that they are not of my religion."

Religion

"Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison."

Beauty

"I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession."

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"The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise."

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