“Who once believed will never wholly doubt.”
Alfred Austin (1835–1913) British writer and poet
Source: Prince Lucifer (1887), Lucifer in Act VI, sc. ii; p. 193.
“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)
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Source: Prince Lucifer (1887), Eve in Act VI, sc. ii; p. 193.
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Doubt thou the sun doth move
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