If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.
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Original Citation
Kierkegaard, Soren [published as Johannes de silentio]. Frygt og Bæven [Fear and Trembling]. Copenhagen: C. A. Reitzel, 1843.
Current Citation
Kierkegaard, Soren. Fear and Trembling, translated by Alastair Hannay. Penguin Classics, 1986.