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"A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him." »Aesop
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"When men are doubtful of the true state of things, their wishes lead them to believe in what is most agreeable." »Arrianus
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"Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture." »William James
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"Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often." »Samuel Butler
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"We ought not be over anxious to encourage innovation, in case of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over a new one; it is established and it is understood." »C. C. Colton
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"It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones." »Machiavelli
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"Unity in things necessary, liberty in things doubtful, charity in everything." »Anonymous
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"It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things. For the reformer has enemies in all those who would profit by the old order, only lukewarm defenders in all those who would profit by the new." »Machiavelli
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"Men are doubtful and skeptical about the Church they suspect and dislike the clergy they are impatient of theological systems but for Jesus Christ, as he stand out to view in the sacred pages, as they dimly realize him in their own best selves, as they catch faint traces of him in the lives of his saints, they have no other sentiments than those of respect and affection." »Herbert Hensley Henson
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"In necessary things, unity in doubtful things, liberty in all things, charity." »Richard Baxter
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"In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity." »Richard Baxter
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"Women never reason and therefore they are, comparatively, seldom wrong. They judge instinctively of what falls under their immediate observation or experience, and do not trouble themselves about remote or doubtful consequences. If they make no profound discoveries, they do not involve themselves in gross absurdities. It is only by the help of reason and logical inference, according to Hobbes, that ?man becomes excellently wise or excellently foolish.?" »Hazlitt
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