The Pope immediately replied—
Hoc vinum enervat debilitatque pedes:
I shall supply that wine with sparing hand,
Which from the feet takes off the power to stand.
J.G.B.
DOUBTING.
The mind that never doubts shall learn nothing; the mind that ever doubts shall never profit by learning. Our doubts only stir us up to seek truth; our resolution settles us in the truth we have found. There were no pleasure in resolution, if we had not been formerly troubled with doubts; there were nothing but discomfort and disquietness in doubts, if it were not for the hope of resolution. It is not good to let doubts dwell too long upon the heart; there may be good use of them as passengers, but dangerous as inmates.
HALL.