In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to
one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most
unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.--_De Witt Talmage._

He that despairs limits infinite power to finite
apprehensions.--_South._

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his helper
is omnipotent.--_Jeremy Taylor._

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

Juliet was a fool to kill herself, for in three months she'd have
married again, and been glad to be quit of Romeo.--_Charles Buxton._

What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed
hope.--_George Eliot._

~Despotism.~--It is difficult for power to avoid despotism. The possessors
of rude health; the individualities cut out by a few strokes, solid for
the very reason that they are all of a piece; the complete characters
whose fibres have never been strained by a doubt; the minds that no
questions disturb and no aspirations put out of breath,--these, the
strong, are also the tyrants.--_Countess de Gasparin._

There is something among men more capable of shaking despotic power than
lightning, whirlwind, or earthquake; that is, the threatened indignation
of the whole civilized world.--_Daniel Webster._

~Destiny.~--The scape-goat which we make responsible for all our crimes
and follies; a necessity which we set down for invincible, when we have
no wish to strive against it.--_Mrs. Balfour._

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.--_George
Eliot._

~Detention.~--Never hold any one by the button or the hand, in order to be
heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold
your tongue than them.--_Chesterfield._

~Detraction.~--Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put
them to mending.--_Shakespeare._

In some unlucky dispositions there is such an envious kind of pride that
they cannot endure that any but themselves should be set forth for
excellent; so that when they hear one justly praised they will either
seek to dismount his virtues, or, if they be like a clear light, they
will stab him with a _but_ of detraction; as if there were something yet
so foul as did obnubilate even his brightest glory. When their tongue
cannot justly condemn him, they will leave him suspected by their
silence.--_Feltham._

~Dew.~--That same dew, which sometimes withers buds, was wont to swell