“Who never doubted never half believed
Where doubt there truth is—'t is her shadow.”

— Philip James Bailey , Festus

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)

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British writer and poet 1816–1902

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