han gold; for the latter is the
gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.--_Addison._
~Distrust.~--As health lies in labor, and there is no royal road to it but
through toil, so there is no republican road to safety but in constant
distrust.--_Wendell Phillips._
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?--_George Eliot._
When desperate ills demand a speedy cure, distrust is cowardice, and
prudence folly.--_Johnson._
~Doubt.~--Remember Talleyrand's advice, "If you are in doubt whether to
write a letter or not--don't!" The advice applies to many doubts in life
besides that of letter writing.--_Bulwer-Lytton._
Doubt is hell in the human soul.--_Gasparin._
Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.--_J.
Petit Senn._
Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.--_Shakespeare._
The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession
of faith of people under a worldly yoke.--_X. Doudan._
There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the
creeds.--_Tennyson._
Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt.--_Victor Hugo._
~Dreams.~--Children of night, of indigestion bred.--_Churchill._
A world of the dead in the hues of life.--_Mrs. Hemans._
The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train.--_Milton._
Dreams always go by contraries, my dear.--_Samuel Lover._
We are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps, and the slumber of
the body seems to be but the waking of the soul. It is the litigation of
sense, but the liberty of reason; and our waking conceptions do not
match the fancies of our sleeps.--_Sir T. Browne._
The mockery of unquiet slumbers.--_Shakespeare._
Like a dog, he hunts in dreams.--_Tennyson._
~Dress.~--It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to
give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in
the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present
artists.--_Rousseau._
~Duty.~--Stern daughter of the voice of God.--_Wordsworth._
Duty is a power which rises with us in the morning and goes to rest with
us at night. It is coextensive with the action of our intelligence. It
is the shadow which cleaves to us, go where we will, and which only
leaves us when we leave the light of life.--_Gladstone._
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep his
commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.--_Bible._
The idea of duty, that r
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