Careful Words

certainty (n.)

  He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): The Idler. No. 57.

Such sober certainty of waking bliss.

John Milton (1608-1674): Comus. Line 263.

Fireside happiness, to hours of ease

Blest with that charm, the certainty to please.

Samuel Rogers (1763-1855): Human Life.