200 DOON DOUBT
The little dogs and all,
Tray, Blanche, and Sweetheart, see, they bark at me.
King Lear. Act III. Sc. 6. L. 65.
Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar?
King Lear. Act IV. Sc. 6. L. 159.
We are two travellers, Roger and I.
Roger's my dog—come here, you scamp!
Jump for the gentleman—mind your eye!
Over the table,—look out for the lamp!
The rogue is growing a little old;
Five years we've tramped through wind and
weather,
And slept out-doors when nights were cold,
And ate and drank and starved together.
John T. Trowbridge—The Vagabonds.
Gentlemen of the Jury: The one, absolute,
unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish
world, the one that never deserts him, the one
that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is
his dog.
Senator Geo. Graham Vest—Eulogy on the
Dog. Found in Elbert Hubbard's Pig-Pen
Pete. P. 178.
DOON (River}})
Ye banks and braes o' bonny Doon,
How can ye bloom sae fresh and fair;
How can ye chant, ye little birds,
And I sae weary fu' o' care!
Burns—The Banks o' Boon.
DOUBT
Who never doubted, never half believed.
Where doubt there truth is—'tis her shadow.
Bailey—Festus. Sc. A Country Town.
He would not, with a peremptory tone,
Assert the nose upon his face his own.
| author = Cowper
| work = Conversation. L. 121.
Non menno che saper, dubbiar m'aggrata.
Doubting charms me not less than knowledge.
Dante—Inferno. XI. 93.
Uncertain ways unsafest are,
And doubt a greater mischief than despair.
Sir John Denham—Cooper's Hill. L. 399.
Vous ne prouvez que trop que chercher a connaltre
N'est souvent qu' apprendre a douter.
You prove but too clearly that seeking to know
Is too frequently learning to doubt.
Mme. DeshOulteres.
Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.
F. R. HAVERGAii—Royal Bounty. The Imagination of the Thoughts of the Heart,
When in doubt, win the trick.
Hoyle—Twenty-four rules for Learners. Rule 12. </poem>
He who dallies is a dastard,
He who doubts is damned.
Attributed to George McDuffle, of South
Carolina, during the "Nullification" period.
Used by James Hamilton, when Governor
of South Carolina. Also quoted by J. C. S.
Blackburn, of Kentucky, in Congress, Feb.
, during the Hayes-Tilden dispute.
Appeared in the Louisville Courier-Journal
(Col. Watterson, editor), during same
dispute.
| seealso = (See also Romans. XIV. 23)
But the gods are dead—
Ay, Zeus is dead, and all the gods but Doubt,
Aid doubt is brother devil to Despair!
John Boyle O'Reilly—Prometheus. Christ.
The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.
Fain would I but dare not; I dare, and yet I may not;
I may, although I care not for pleasure when i
play not.
Sir Walter Raleigh—A Lover's Verses.
And he that doubteth is damned if he eat.
Romans. XIV. 23.
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.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act II. Sc. 5. L. 49.
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?
Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 56.
But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd, bound ii
To saucy doubts and fears.
Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 24.
Our doubts are traitors
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.
To be once in doubt
Is once to be resolv'd.
Othello. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 179.
No hinge nor loop,
To hang a doubt on;
Othello. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 366.
Modest doubt is call'd
The beacon of the wise.
Troilus and Cressida. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 15.
To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.
(King of Poland)
