Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. 1181 William Ellery Channing: Address, Boston, Mass., September, 1838. Self-Culture. Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better. Emerson: Conduct of Life. Considerations by the Way. 1182 Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compas sionate. 1183 Joseph Roux: Meditations of a Parish Priest. Joy, Suffering, Fortune, No. 4. (Hapgood, Translator.) It is never wise to slip the bands of discipline. 1184 Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur. Bk. iv. Ch. 13. The strength one can eke from little, who knows till he has been subjected to the trial? 1185 Lew Wallace: Ben-Hur. Bk. vi. Ch. 2. DISCONTENT. Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. 1186 Emerson Essays. Self-Reliance. Men are merely on a lower or higher stage of an eminence, whose summit is God's throne, infinitely above all; and there is just as much reason for the wisest as for the simplest man being discontented with his position, as respects the real quantity of knowledge he possesses. 1187 Ruskin: The Stones of Venice. The Fall. Ch. 2. DISCOURAGEMENT. Shakespeare: Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. Nothing resembles pride so much as discouragement. DISCOVERIES - see Development. All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinkings. 1190 Charles H. Parkhurst: Sermons. III. Coming to the Truth. DISCRETION. Let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action. 1191 Shakespeare: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. little hole of Act v. Sc. 2. I have seen the day of wrong through the discretion. 1192 Shakespeare: Love's Labor Lost. 118 DISCRIMINATION — DRAMA. DISCRIMINATION. You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful. 1193 Epictetus: Fragments. CLVII. (Long, Trans.) I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following, but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. 1194 Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. DISINTERESTEDNESS. How difficult it is to get men to believe that any other man can or does act from disinterestedness! 1195 DISLOYALTY. B. R. Haydon: Table Talk. The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure. 1196 Hazlitt: Characteristics. No. 15. DISTRUST He that has lost his faith, what staff has he left? DOGMA Rationalia. Ornamenta - see Infidelity, Orthodoxy, Religion. "I have heard frequent use," said the late Lord Sandwich, in a debate on the Test Laws, "of the words 'orthodoxy' and heterodoxy;' but I confess myself at a loss to know precisely what they mean." "Orthodoxy, my Lord," said Bishop Warburton, in a whisper, "orthodoxy is my doxy, heterodoxy is another man's doxy." 1198 DOUBT. Doubt is the accomplice of tyranny. Priestley: Memoirs. Amiel: Journal. Dec. 30, 1866. (Mrs. Humphrey DRAMA, The-see Stage, The. 1200 J. C. and A. W. Hare: Guesses at Truth. The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a fac-simile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of its liveliest wit or most passionate impulses, a thousand times adorning or feeling all as it goes; and you must read it, as the healthy instinct of audiences almost always does, if the critics will let them alone, with a grain of allowance, and a tendency to go away with as much of it for use as is necessary, and the rest for the luxury of laughter, pity, or poetical admiration. 1201 Leigh Hunt: Biographical and Critical Notices. (Routledge edition.) DRAMATISTS. There The dramatist, like the poet, is born, not made. must be inspiration back of all true and permanent art, dramatic or otherwise, and art is universal: there is nothing national about it. Its field is humanity, and it takes in all the world; nor does anything else afford the refuge that is provided by it from all troubles and all the vicissitudes of life. 1202 DREAMING. William Winter: The Press and the Stage. Our dreams drench us in sense, and sense steeps us again in dreams. 1203 A. Bronson Alcott: Table Talk. V. Habits. Sleep. Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semideliverance from the human prison. 1204 Amiel Journal, Nov. 8, 1872. (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.) Sleep brings dreams; and dreams are often most vivid and fantastical before we have yet been wholly lost in slumber. 1205 Robert Montgomery Bird: Calavar. Ch. 31. 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 ligation of sense, but the liberty of reason; and our waking conceptions do not match the fancies of our sleeps. 1206 Sir Thomas Browne: Religio Medici. Pt. ii. Sec. 11. Shakespeare: Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was. 1208 DRESS. Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream. I hold that gentleman to be the best dressed whose dress no one observes. 1209 Trollope: Thackeray. Ch. 9. (English Men of DRINKING - see Drunkenness, Wine. Call things by their right names. water! That is the current, but not the appropriate, name; Glass of brandy and Robert Hall: Gregory's Life of. ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation. 1210 Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. 1211 Johnson: Boswell's Life of Johnson. 1779. I drink no more than a sponge. Rabelais: Works. Ch. 5. ... I have drunk but one cup to-night, . . . and, behold, what innovation it makes here; I am unfortunate in the infirmity, nd dare not task my weakness with any more. 1213 Shakespeare: Othello. Act ii. Sc. 3. I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking; I could wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment. 1214 Shakespeare: Othello. Act ii. Sc. 3. There shall be, in England, seven half-penny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer. 1215 Shakespeare: King Henry VI. Pt. ii. DRUNKENNESS -see Talk, Wine. Drinking, therefore, is not censured, if silence go with it, but foolish prating turns being under the influence of wine into drunkenness. 1216 Plutarch: Morals. On Talkativeness. Translator.) (Shilleto, Drunkenness is nothing else than a voluntary madness. 1217 Lodge, Editor.) I will ask him for my place again: he shall tell me I am a drunkard. Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast. O strange! Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil. 1218 Shakespeare: Othello. Act ii. Sc. 3. O that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts! 1219 Shakespeare: Othello. Oli.-What's a drunken man like, fool? Act ii. Sc. 3. Clo. Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman; one draught above heat makes him a fool, the second mads him, and a third drowns him. 1220 Shakespeare: Twelfth Night. Act i. Sc. 5. DUPLICITY. I, I, I myself, sometimes, leaving the fear of heaven on the left hand, and hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle, to hedge, and to lurch. 1221 Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor. One dupe is as impossible as one twin. 1222 John Sterling: Essays and Tales. Thoughts. DUTY see Artists, Benevolence, Happiness, Labor, Duty has the virtue of making us feel the reality of a positive world, while at the same time detaching us from it. 1223 Amiel: Journal, Oct. 1, 1849. (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.) Man is saved by love and duty, and by the hope that springs from duty, or rather from the moral facts of consciousness, as a flower springs from the soil. 1224 Amiel: Journal. Introduction. (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.) Never to tire, never to grow cold; to be patient, sympathetic, tender; to look for the budding flower and the opening heart; to hope always; like God, to love always, this is duty. 1225 Amiel: Journal, May 27, 1849. (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.) Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. 1226 Amiel: Journal, Oct. 27, 1856. (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.) To repel one's cross is to make it heavier. 1227 Amiel: Journal, Dec. 30, 1850. (Mrs. Humphrey He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause. 1228 1229 Henry Ward Beecher : Life Thoughts. Not liberty but duty is the condition of existence. The sense of duty is the fountain of human rights. In other words, the same inward principle which teaches the former bears witness to the latter. Duties and rights must stand and fall together. 1230 William Ellery Channing: Slavery. Ch. 2. The sense of duty pursues us ever. 1231 Joseph Cook: Boston Monday Lectures. Conscience. Matthew Arnold's Views on Conscience. |