William Shakespeare on Doubt
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“No hinge nor loop, To hang a doubt on.”
“To be once in doubt Is once to be resolv'd.”
“But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.”
“Our doubts are traitors And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt.”
“But yet, madam— I do not like, "but yet," it does allay The good precedence; fie upon "but yet!" "But yet" is a gaoler to bring forth Some monstrous malefactor.”
“To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?”