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Letter "D" » doubtful
«Oh! rather give me commentators plain, / Who with no deep researches vex the brain; / Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, / And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun.»
«Many people think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.»
«There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, that to institute a new order of things»
«The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play»
«Newspaper correspondents with an army, as a rule, are mischievous. They are the world's gossips, pick up and retail the camp scandal, and gradually drift to the headquarters of some general, who finds it easier to make reputation at home than with his own corps or division. They are also tempted to prophesy events and state facts which, to an enemy, reveal a purpose in time to guard against it. Moreover, they are always bound to see facts colored by the partisan or political character of their own patrons, and thus bring army officers into the political controversies of the day, which are always mischievous and wrong. Yet, so greedy are the people at large for war news, that it is doubtful whether any army commander can exclude all reporters, without bringing down on himself a clamor that may imperil his own safety. Time and moderation must bring a just solution to this modern difficulty.»
Author: William Tecumseh Sherman
(
General)
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Keywords:
against the rules,
army officer,
at large,
camp,
clamor,
clamoring,
colored,
commander,
controversies,
corps,
correspondent,
correspondents,
division,
doubtful,
drift,
Enemy of the state,
exclude,
gossips,
greedy,
headquarters,
home rule,
imperil,
imperiled,
imperils,
mischievous,
moreover,
officers,
partisan,
partisans,
patrons,
pick up,
prophesy,
Reporters,
retail,
retailing,
scandal,
tempted
«Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion»
«Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy»
«The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful.»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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About:
Animals,
Consequences
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Keywords:
dim,
dimmed,
dimming,
dims,
doubtful,
learns,
sets,
tail
«Our belief at the beginning of a doubtful undertaking is the one thing that assures the successful outcome of any venture»
Author: William James
(
Philosopher,
Psychologist)
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About:
Belief,
Success
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Keywords:
assures,
assuring,
belief,
doubtful,
outcome,
outcomes,
successful,
undertaking,
undertook,
venture,
ventured,
venturing
«The accomplishments of the body are obvious and clear to all: those of the mind are recondite and doubtful, and therefore grudgingly acknowledged, or held up as the sport of prejudice, spite, and folly.»