“Who never doubted never half believed
Where doubt there truth is—'t is her shadow.”
Scene V, A Country Town; comparable to Alfred, Lord Tennyson "There lives more faith in honest doubt / Believe me, than in half the creeds."
Festus (1839)
“Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.”
Variant: Doubt thou the stars are fire
Doubt thou the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt I love
Source: Hamlet
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Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love." by William Shakespeare?
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