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,
like round and orient pearls, stood now within the pretty flow'rets'
eyes, like tears, that did their own disgrace bewail.--_Shakespeare._