46 Metaphors for doubts

Would it not be well to move away to some other town where you can find new friends who will not drink and who will not tempt you to drink?" "Aye, my dear, that no doubt would be the best.

The result no doubt of that 'muse' was the suspicion, or, perhaps, the conviction, that the rest of the world would, in all probability, be as obtuse as Ellwood; and to that suspicion or conviction we appear to owe Paradise Regained.

And you say this doubt is a very recent thing?"

In March my doubts became certainties.

This powerful and consolatory intermixture of qualities is the characteristic of the eminent men of the sixteenth century, Catholics or Protestants, soldiers or civilians; and it is a spectacle wholesome to be offered in times when doubt and moral enfeeblement are the common malady even of sound minds and of honest men.

Whatever my own doubt as to her probable reception, however absurd in my own estimation the thing I was induced to do, there was no corresponding consciousness, no feeling but one of surprise and gratification, in the face on which I turned my eyes.

To the priest he frankly acknowledged his doubts, that doubt was his chief sin, that he was nearly always in doubt.

We have several times mentioned the famous fair of Landit, which is supposed to have been established by Charlemagne, but which no doubt was a sort of revival of the fairs of St. Denis, founded by Dagobert, and which for a time had fallen into disuse in the midst of the general ruin which preceded that emperor's reign.

And, in so far as it has done this, it has performed a work which entitles it to the attention of man and no doubt has been a factor in God's education of the world.

Doubts are over. KATHARINE.

The doubt which ye misdeeme, fayre Love, is vaine, That fondly feare to lose your liberty, When, losing one, two liberties ye gayne, And make him bond that bondage earst did fly.

This water was not pure; it had a bitter taste, and no doubt in dry weather was a rank poison.

"No doubt in the world about that," he whispered back; "it's this 'Double' business, as he calls it, or else it's obsession as the Bible describes it.

These doubts, he said, were the result of personal observations in the limited sphere of his own State where "the opportunities for the development of their genius were not favorable, and those of exercising it still less so."

As that last word fell so softly, yet with such tender suggestion, a sensation of sympathy passed between us for the first time; and I knew, from the purity of her look and the fearlessness of this covert appeal to one she could not address openly, that the doubts I had cherished of her up to this very moment were an outrage and that were it possible or seemly, I should be bowed down in the dust at her feetin reality, as I was in spirit.

Such a doubt would be almost blasphemy against Providence.

But no doubt to many persons the most enchaining picture here is the Medusa's head, which used to be called a Leonardo and quite satisfied Ruskin of its genuineness, but is now attributed to the Flemish school.

And no doubt for a young, strong, and bold man the excitement of it is an intense pleasure.

The man of the nineteenth century, like a schoolboy of sixteen, believes that his doubt and depression are symbols of the end of the world.

No doubt in general, in most cases, The child is father of the man for good and evil.

But no doubt when we come to modus operandi the main difficulty of the movement is the diversity of the classes it seeks to approachdiversity in individual capacity, in leisure, means, and previous training.

Such doubts are foes to human peace, but at the same time they are a filter, which does not pass any dirt.

It is said almost instinctively, and no doubt in many cases is the refuge of simple disinclination to think the matter out.

For him, doubts were never very long nor painful affairs.

However hard it seems to-day, When some fond plan has gone astray Or what you've wished for most is lost An' you sit countin' up the cost With eyes half-blind by tears o' grief While doubt is chokin' out belief, You'll find when all is understood That what seemed bad was really good.

46 Metaphors for  doubts