In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin with doubts, they will end in certainties.
If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she is blind, she is not invisible.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Who then to frail mortality shall trust,/ But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
Who then to frail mortality shall trust but limns on water, or but writes in dust
If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties.