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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes about Doubt

A bitter and perplexed What shall I do? Is worse to man than worse necessity.

A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “The Poetical and Dramatic Works of S. T. Coleridge. With a Life of the Author”, p.133

To doubt has more of faith ... than that blank negation of all such thoughts and feelings which is the lot of the herd of church-and-meeting trotters.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Kathleen Coburn, Bart Keith Winer, Carl Woodring (1990). “Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Table Talk (2 v.)”, Bollingen Foundation