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“What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a nail in his boot that prevented him from going on. For the old humility made a man doubtful about his efforts, which made him work harder. But the new humility makes a man doubtful about his aims, which will make him stop working altogether.”

Men Made Today Suffering Effort Humility Hard Work Harder Aim Boots Nails Stopping Work Harder Spurs Doubtful

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.”

Use Values Causes Pleasure Tests Confusion Prime Doubtful

Book:Woman as Artist and Thinker

Source: Woman as Artist and Thinker

“People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful.”

People Future Doubtful Morrow

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than the creation of a new order of things..... Whenever his enemies have occasion to attack the innovator they do so with the passion of partisans, while the others defend him sluggishly so that the innovator and his party alike are vulnerable.”

Order Passion Difficult Leadership Party Enemy Plans Dangerous Creation Manage Vulnerable Occasions Partisans Doubtful Innovators

Author:Niccolo Machiavelli

“Suddenly all the sky is hid As with the shutting of a lid, One by one great drops are falling Doubtful and slow, Down the pane they are crookedly crawling, And the wind breathes low; Slowly the circles widen on the river, Widen and mingle, one and all; Here and there the slenderer flowers shiver, Struck by an icy rain-drop’s fall.”

Fall Sky Wind Flower Lows Rain Rivers Breathe Circles Weather Slow Down Here And There Doubtful Crawling Shiver Icy Rain Drop

Book:The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

Source: The poetical works of James Russell Lowell

“It is altogether doubtful whether any man can be saved who comes to Christ for His help with no intention to obey Him.”

Men Helping Christ Intention Saved Doubtful

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been exactly reversed.”

Men Has Beens Meant To Be Doubtful Were Meant To Be Humility And Modesty

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!”

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Author:Mark Twain

“A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of a man that a man does assert is exactly the part he ought not to assert - himself. The part he doubts is exactly the part he ought not to doubt - the Divine Reason.”

Men Doe Has Beens Reason Doubt Divine Ought Meant To Be Doubtful Were Meant To Be

Book:The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton

“At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd”

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Author:Walt Whitman

“A doubtful throne is ice on summer seas.”

Sea Summer Ice Rulers Thrones Doubtful

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)

“The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of the horse barn, still writing those doubtful poems where too much emotion clashed with too many words.”

Writing Years Stills Courses Poor Emotion Too Much Clothes Horse Hills Brutal Doubtful Barns

Book:A Lucky American Childhood

Source: A Lucky American Childhood

“It may be doubtful, at first, whether a person is an enemy or friend. Meat, if not properly digested, becomes poison; But poison, if used rightly, may turn medicinal.”

Ifs Firsts May Persons Used Turns Enemy Meat Poison Investigation Doubtful

Author:Sakya Pandita

“I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest.”

Book Stories Felt Novel Clear Worried Genre Categories Usual Modest Doubtful Squad Goons

Author:Jennifer Egan