 | William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 460 pages
...Experience. Our own precedent passions do instruct us What levity's in youth. 27 — i. 1. 255 Distrust. Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt. 5 — i. 5. 256 Decaying nature of Love. There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick,... | |
 | Catharine Harbeson Waterman - 1839 - 252 pages
...Uncertainty ! Fell demon of our fears ! The human soul, That can support despair, supports not thee. MALLET. Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt. SHAKSPEARE. Like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both... | |
 | 1839
...videntur. " Our doubts," says the great master of the human heart, whom I have already quoted, — -our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt," Diligence and perseverance will attain much, if they do not accomplish every thing. The stern unyielding... | |
 | Samuel Warren, Sir George Stephen, Sir James Stephen - 1839 - 407 pages
...client that gave one credit for a compromise. CHAPTER VIII. " Quo virtus, quo ferat error?" — HOB. - Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt." — MEASURE FOB MEASURE. THE "timid" form a very unmanageable class of clients. I think it was Dr.... | |
 | Sir George Stephen, Samuel Warren, Sir James Stephen - 1839 - 407 pages
...client that gave one credit for a compromise. CHAPTER VIII. " Quo virtus, quo ferat error?"—HOE. • Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt."—MEASURE FOR MEASURE. THE "timid" form a very unmanageable class of clients. I think it... | |
 | Miss Macauley (Elizabeth Wright) - 1834
...Brief! if my novel enterprise succeed — If else ! — Why else ? — Why press the mind with doubt ? " Our doubts are traitors, " And make us lose the good we oft might win, " By fearing to attempt." Hope lures us on from day to day; — but yet Unequal is the fate of humankind : The sport of Fortune... | |
 | 1861
...would have raised their possessors to a position of respectability and power. 'Oar doubt! are tralton, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt I •Toil, and be strong.' ' He most proTails who nobly dares.' Motives numerous and powerful may be... | |
 | Blackwood's Lady's Magazine VOL.X 1841 - 1841
...Nevertheless, it might be that he agreed with what the poet of human nature teaches in another place, viz. : " Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might wiu By fearing to attempt :" for, after one or two more turns, he addressed himself to a tall soldierlike... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842
...ability's in me To do him good ? Lucio. Assay the power you have. Isab. My power, alas ! I doubt. Lucio. Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt. Go to lord Angelo, And let him learn to know, when maidens sue, Men give like gods ; but when they... | |
 | George Bush - 1842 - 206 pages
...p. 693. feet vacated by the secret prevailing belief that its contents are unintelligible. Alas! " Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt." From the copious citations adduced above from the records of ecclesiastical antiquity, it is clear... | |
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Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win, By fearing to attempt. 
