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“Better trust all, and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart, that if believed Had blessed one's life with true believing.”
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- Source:
- Faith.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 1f32f694298014c2466224ae1e5a140ada700fb4738d4ad2d9ae18c440f1f759
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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