“If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
“He who doubts from what he sees
Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
If the sun and moon should doubt
They'd immediately go out.”
Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 107
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