hesitate quotes

Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers in our casual creeds† Who hesitate and falter life away, And lose tomorrow the ground won today Ah, do not we,Wanderer, await it too?

- Matthew Arnold
  Poems:  A New Edition,'The Scholar-Gipsy', l.171^4.

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer; Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.

- Alexander Pope
  Of Addison.'An Epistle to DrArbuthnot', l.201^4.