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

— Philip James Bailey Festus (1839)

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Source: Scene V, A Country Town; comparable to Alfred, Lord Tennyson "There lives more faith in honest doubt / Believe me, than in half the creeds."
Work: Festus, 1839
Source quality: Precise citation Points to a specific work with a page, chapter, date or similar locator, so you can look it up.

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