Quote#Courage
The pretext for indecisiveness is commonly mature deliberation; but…
Quote byHenry Taylor · 1800–1886
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Statesman (1836), Ch. 21. p. 144.
English (original)
The pretext for indecisiveness is commonly mature deliberation; but in reality indecisive men occupy themselves less in deliberation than others; for to him who fears to decide, deliberation (which has a foretaste of that fear) soon becomes intolerably irksome, and the mind escapes from the anxiety of it into alien themes.
— Henry Taylor
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