d thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought;
And enterprises of great pith and moment,
With this regard their currents torn awry,
And lose the name of action.
386
SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

O conscience, into what abyss of fears
And horrors hast thou driven me; out of which
I find no way, from deep to deeper plung'd!
387
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. x., Line 842.

But, at sixteen, the conscience rarely gnaws
So much, as when we call our old debts in
At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil,
And find a deuced balance with the devil.
388
BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto i., St. 167.

=Consideration.=

Consideration like an angel came,
And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him.
389
SHAKS.: _Henry V.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

=Consistency.=

Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man;
He's ben on all sides thet give places or pelf;
But consistency still wuz a part of his plan,--
He's ben true to _one_ party, an' thet is himself.
390
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Biglow Papers,_ No. ii.

=Consolation.=

This grief is crowned with consolation.
391
SHAKS.: _Ant. and Cleo.,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd;
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow;
Raze out the written troubles of the brain;
And, with some sweet oblivious antidote,
Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff,
Which weighs upon the heart?
392
SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act v., Sc. 3.

=Conspiracy.=

Conspiracies no sooner should be formed
Than executed.
393
ADDISON: _Cato,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Constancy.=

I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fix'd, and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.
394
SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

Alas! they had been friends in youth;
But whispering tongues can poison truth,
And constancy lives in realms above.
395
COLERIDGE: _Christabel,_ Pt. ii.

=Consummation.=

To die: to sleep:
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to,--'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd.
396
SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

=Contemplation.=

For contemplation he and valor form'd,
For softness she and sweet attractive grace.
397
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. iv., Line 297.

=Contempt.=

From no one vice exempt,
And most contemptible to shun contempt.
398
POPE: _Moral Essays,_ Epis. i., Line 194.

=Contention.=