DOUBT in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Odyssey by Homer
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1 I doubt not that he too lifts his hands in prayer, for man cannot live without God in the world.
2 Stockman, and you swineherd, I have something in my mind which I am in doubt whether to say or no; but I think I will say it.
3 I have no doubt the women in some foreign palace which Ulysses has got to are gibing at him as all these sluts here have been gibing at you.
4 When Menelaus saw this he doubted whether to let him choose his own time for speaking, or to ask him at once and find what it was all about.
5 He doubted whether to embrace him, kiss him, and tell him all about his having come home, or whether he should first question him and see what he would say.
6 Ulysses," said he, "now that you have reached my house I doubt not you will get home without further misadventure no matter how much you have suffered in the past.
7 This made Ulysses very angry, and he doubted whether to get up and kill every single one of them then and there, or to let them sleep one more and last time with the suitors.
8 Goddess," answered Ulysses, "all that you have said is true, but I am in some doubt as to how I shall be able to kill these wicked suitors single handed, seeing what a number of them there always are.
9 Menelaus was thinking what would be the most proper answer for him to make, but Helen was too quick for him and said, "I will read this matter as heaven has put it in my heart, and as I doubt not that it will come to pass."
10 She stood right in front of Ulysses, and he doubted whether he should go up to her, throw himself at her feet, and embrace her knees as a suppliant, or stay where he was and entreat her to give him some clothes and show him the way to the town.
11 For a moment he doubted whether or no to fly at Melanthius and kill him with his staff, or fling him to the ground and beat his brains out; he resolved, however, to endure it and keep himself in check, but the swineherd looked straight at Melanthius and rebuked him, lifting up his hands and praying to heaven as he did so.