Thirsting for the golden fountain of the fable, from how many streams
have we turned away, weary and in disgust!--_Bulwer-Lytton._
We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between
breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale
about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride
helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our
own hurts--not to hurt others.--_George Eliot._
Ah! what seeds for a paradise I bore in my heart, of which birds of prey
have robbed me.--_Richter._
~Discourtesy.~--Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality,
but from several,--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to
others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought,
from contempt of others, from jealousy.--_La Bruyere._
~Discovery.~--Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops
out of the darkness, and falls as a golden link in the great chain of
order.--_Chapin._
~Discretion.~--Be discreet in all things, and go render it unnecessary to
be mysterious about any.--_Wellington._
Though a man has all other perfections and wants discretion, he will be
of no great consequence in the world; but if he has this single talent
in perfection, and but a common share of others, he may do what he
pleases in his particular station of life.--_Addison._
~Dishonesty.~--So grasping is dishonesty that it is no respecter of
persons: it will cheat friends as well as foes; and, were it possible,
even God himself!--_Bancroft._
~Dispatch.~--Use dispatch. Remember that the world only took six days to
create. Ask me for whatever you please except _time_: that is the only
thing which is beyond my power.--_Napoleon._
True dispatch is a rich thing; for time is the measure of business, as
money is of wares, and business is bought at a dear hand where there is
small dispatch.--_Bacon._
~Disposition.~--A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which
inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is
even for its own sake incapable of involving any man in ruin and misery,
is of all tempers of mind the most amiable; and, though it seldom
receives much honor, is worthy of the highest.--_Fielding._
A good disposition is more valuable than 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._