Personal doubt is always about something special, and a passion for annihilation of the kind one so often hears talk of leads at most to a crowd of people venturing out without having the strength to doubt, and failing, or else ending in some half-measures which is certain failure just the same.
 Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or (1843). copy citation

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Author Søren Kierkegaard
Source Either/Or
Topic strength failure
Date 1843
Language English
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Note Translated by Alastair Hannay
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