Many Thoughts of Many Minds Part 13

--MARTIAL.

No man but knows that he must die; he knows that in whatever quarter of the world he abides--whatever be his circ.u.mstances--however strong his present hold of life--however unlike the prey of death he looks--that it is his doom beyond reverse to die.--STEBBING.

It is by no means a fact that death is the worst of all evils; when it comes, it is an alleviation to mortals who are worn out with sufferings.--METASTASIO.

G.o.d giveth quietness at last.--WHITTIER.

Death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits.

--JOHN WEBSTER.

Death will have his day.--SHAKESPEARE.

Death comes but once.--BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.

It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery.--GOTTHOLD.

Death is the crown of life.--YOUNG.

So live, that, when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, that moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon; but sustain'd and sooth'd By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one that draws the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

--BRYANT.

DEBT.--Who goes a-borrowing goeth a-sorrowing.--TUSSER.

Creditors have better memories than debtors; and creditors are a superst.i.tious sect, great observers of set days and times.--FRANKLIN.

Man hazards the condition and loses the virtues of freeman, in proportion as he accustoms his thoughts to view without anguish or shame his lapse into the bondage of debtor.--LYTTON.

Paying of debts is, next to the grace of G.o.d, the best means in the world to deliver you from a thousand temptations to sin and vanity.

--DELANY.

Run not into debt, either for wares sold, or money borrowed; be content to want things that are not of absolute necessity, rather than to run up the score.--SIR M. HALE.

Debt is the worst poverty.--M.G. LICHTWER.

DELICACY.--Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue.--MARGUERITE DE VALOIS.

Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.

--NOVALIS.

An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.--MRS. SIGOURNEY.

True delicacy, that most beautiful heart-leaf of humanity, exhibits itself most significantly in little things.--MARY HOWITT.

Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to the beauty.--DEGERANDO.

Weak men often, from the very principle of their weakness, derive a certain susceptibility, delicacy and taste which render them, in those particulars, much superior to men of stronger and more consistent minds, who laugh at them.--GREVILLE.

Delicacy is to the mind what fragrance is to the fruit.--ACHILLES POINCELOT.

DELUSION.--Delusions, like dreams, are dispelled by our awaking to the stern realities of life.--A.R.C. DALLAS.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.--BOVEE.

We are always living under some delusion, and instead of taking things as they are, and making the best of them, we follow an ignis fatuus, and lose, in its pursuit, the joy we might attain.--JAMES ELLIS.

DESPAIR.--It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.--JEREMY TAYLOR.

Despair is the conclusion of fools.--BEACONSFIELD.

He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model.--SOUTH.

Despair is infidelity and death.--WHITTIER.

Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original.

'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty too. I would not despair, unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity.--COLLIER.

Where Christ brings His cross, He brings His presence; and where He is, none are desolate, and there is no room for despair.--MRS. BROWNING.

He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.--CONFUCIUS.

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.--LADY BLESSINGTON.

Dreadful is their doom, whom doubt has driven To censure fate, and pious hope forego.

--BEATTIE.

DIET.--Simple diet is best.--PLINY.

Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.--SHAKESPEARE.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eat about twice as much as nature requires.--FRANKLIN.

DIFFICULTIES.--Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.--SENECA.

There is no merit where there is no trial; and, till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pa.s.s for heroes, faith for falsehood.--AARON HILL.

Difficulties are G.o.d's errands; and when we are sent upon them we should esteem it a proof of G.o.d's confidence--as a compliment from G.o.d.--BEECHER.

It is difficulties which give birth to miracles.--REV. DR. SHARPE.

What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools; only a mere stimulus to men.--SAMUEL WARREN.

Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a paternal guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.--BURKE.