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ble purpose are the graveyards of good intentions.

It is a poor and disgraceful thing not to be able to reply, with some degree of certainty, to the simple questions, What will you be? What will you do?"-John Foster.

He that cannot decidedly say "No," when tempted to evil, is on the highway to ruin.— He loses the respect even of those who would tempt him, and becomes but the pliant tool and victim of their evil designs. -J. Hawes.

The man who has not learned to say "No," will be a weak if not a wretched man as long as he lives.-A. Maclaren.

DEEDS.-Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.-George Eliot.

We are our own fates.-Our deeds are our own doomsmen.-Man's life was made not for creeds, but actions.-Meredith.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done !—Shakespeare.

Our deeds are seeds of fate, sown here on earth, but bringing forth their harvest in eternity.-G. D. Boardman.

The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, unless the deed go with it.-Shakespeare.

Our deeds follow us, and what we have been makes us what we are.

It is our own past which has made us what we are. 'We are the children of our own deeds. Conduct has created character; acts have grown into habits, each year has pressed into us a deeper moral print; the lives we have led have left us such as we are to-day.—Dykes.

A word that has been said may be unsaid —it is but air.-But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow-Longfellow.

Look on little deeds as great, on account of Christ, who dwells in us, and watches our life; look on great deeds as easy, on account of His great power.—Pascal.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.-Cervantes.

We should believe only in deeds; words go for nothing everywhere.-Rojas.

No matter what a man's aims, or resolutions, or professions may be, it is by one's deeds that he is to be judged, both by God and man.-H. W. Beecher.

Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds. - Congreve.

Foul deeds will rise, though all the earth

o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.-Shakespeare.

Good deeds ring clear through heaven like a bell.-Richter.

A noble deed is a step toward God.J. G. Holland.

A life spent worthily should be measured by,deeds, not years.-Sheridan.

DEFEAT.-What is defeat ?-Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.- Wendell Phillips.

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.-H. W. Beecher.

No man is defeated without some resentment, which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong. -Johnson.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, and gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible, and formed those heroic natures that are now in ascendency in the world.-Do not then be afraid of defeat.-You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.-H. W. Beecher.

DEFERENCE.-Deference is the most delicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments, and before company is the genteelest kind of flattery.— Shenstone.

Deference is the instinctive respect which we pay to the great and good.-The unconscious acknowledgment of the superiority or excellence of others.-Tryon Edwards.

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy, as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.-Shenstone.

DEFINITION. -All arts acknowledge that then only we know certainly, when we can define; for definition is that which refines the pure essence of things from the circumstance.-Milton.

Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes.-Emmons.

A large part of the discussions of disputants come from the want of accurate definition.-Let one define his terms and then stick to the definition, and half the differences in philosophy and theology would come to an end, and be seen to have no real foundation.-Tryon Edwards.

I am apt to think that men find their simple ideas agree, though in discourse they confound one another with different names.-Locke.

DEFORMITY.

DEFORMITY.-Many a man has risen to eminence under the powerful reaction of his mind against the scorn of the unworthy, daily evoked by his personal defects, who, with a handsome person, would have sunk into the luxury of a careless life under the tranquilizing smiles of continual admiration.-De Quincey.

Do you suppose we owe nothing to Pope's deformity? He said to himself, "If my ?—He person be crooked, my verses shall be straight."-Hazlitt.

Deformity is daring; it is its essence to overtake mankind by heart and soul and make itself the equal, aye, the superior of others.—Byron.

Deformity of heart I call the worst deformity of all; for what is form, or face, but the soul's index, or its case?— Colton.

DELAY.-(See "PROCRASTINATION," and “INACTIVITY.")

Delay has always been injurious to those who are prepared.—Lucan.

Defer no time; delays have dangerous ends.-Shakespeare.

It is one of the illusions, that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour.Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.-No man has learned anything rightly until he knows and feels that every day is doomsday.-Carlyle.

O, how many deeds of deathless virtue and immortal crime the world had wanted had the actor said, "I will do this to-morrow!"-Lord John Russell.

God keep you from "It is too late.” When the fool has made up his mind the market has gone by.-Spanish Proverb.

No man ever served God by doing things to-morrow. If we honor Christ, and are blessed, it is by the things which we do to-day.

Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal scene.— Young.

He that takes time to resolve, gives leisure to deny, and warning to prepare.-Quarles. The procrastinator is not only indolent and weak but commonly false too; most of the weak are false.-Lavater.

In delay we waste our lights in vain; like lamps by day.-Shakespeare.

To-morrow, didst thou say? Go to-I will not hear of it-To-morrow! 'tis a sliarper who stakes his penury against thy plentywho takes thy ready cash, and pays thee nought but wishes, hopes, and promises, the currency of idiots. To-morrow! it is a

period nowhere to be found in all the hoary registers of time, unless perchance in the fool's calendar. Wisdom disclaims the word, nor holds society with those that own it. "Tis fancy's child, and folly is its father: wrought on such stuff as dreams are; and baseless as the fantastic visions of the evening.-Cotton.

To-morrow I will live, the fool does say : to-day itself's too late; the wise lived yesterday.-Martial.

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.-Shakespeare.

Every delay is hateful, but it gives wisdom.-Publius Syrus.

Some one speaks admirably of the wellripened fruit of sage delay.-Balzac.

Shun delays, they breed remorse; take thy time while time is lent thee.-Creeping snails have weakest force; fly their fault, lest thou repent thee.-Good is best when soonest wrought; lingering labors come to nought.-Southwell.

Where duty is plain delay is both foolish and hazardous; where it is not, delay may be both wisdom and safety.-Tryon Edwards.

Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action which ought to be performed but is delayed in the execution.-Veeshnoo Sarma.

The surest method of arriving at a'knowledge of God's eternal purposes about us is to be found in the right use of the present moment. Each hour comes with some little fagot of God's will fastened upon its back.— F. W. Faber.

DELICACY.-Delicacy is to the affections what grace is to beauty.-Degerando.

True delicacy, that most beautiful heartleaf of humanity, exhibits itself most significantly in little things.-Mary Howitt.

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling.—Thoreau.

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl you deprave her very fast.-Mrs. Stowe.

Weak men, often, from the very principle of their weakness, derive a certain susceptibility, delicacy, and taste, which render them, in these particulars, much superior to men of stronger and more consistent minds, who laugh at them.-Greville.

Friendship, love, and piety, ought to be handled with a sort of mysterious secresy.

DELIGHT.

They ought to be spoken of only in the rare moments of perfect confidence-to be mutually understood in silence.-Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more to be spoken.-Novalis.

An appearance of delicacy, and even of fragility, is almost essential to beauty.Burke.

Delicacy is to the mind what fragrance is to the fruit.-A. Poincelot.

DELIGHT.-What more felicity can fall to man than to enjoy delight with liberty? Spenser.

As high as we have mounted in delight, in our dejection do we sink as low.- Wordsworth.

These violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume.— Shakespeare.

I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.—Burke.

Sensual delights soon end in loathing, quickly bring a glutting surfeit, and degenerate into torments when they are continued and unintermitted.—John Howe.

DELUSION.-No man is happy without a delusion of some kind.-Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.— Bovee.

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.Bovee.

Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.-Rochefoucauld.

We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, selflove is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third.—Colton.

You think a man to be your dupe.-If he pretends to be so, who is the greatest dupe-he or you ?—Bruyère.

It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others, because we are first deceived ourselves.-Sir P. Sidney.

When our vices quit us, we flatter ourselves with the belief that it is we who quit them.-Rochefoucauld.

O thoughts of men accurst.-Past and to come seem best; things present, worst.Shakespeare.

This is the excellent foppery of the world! hat, when we are sick in fortune, we make

guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars as if we were villains by necessity; fools, by heavenly compulsion; kuaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence, and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on -Shakespeare.

Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived, and has seldom been disappointed.-Mackenzie.

Hope tells a flattering tale, delusive, vain, and hollow.- Wrother.

The disappointment of manhood succeeds the delusion of youth.-Disraeli.

DEMOCRACY.-The love of democracy is that of equality.-Montesquieu.

In every village there will arise some miscreant, to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.-Sir Robert Peel.

The history of the gospel has been the history of the development and growth of Christian democratic ideas.-H. W. Beecher.

Your little child is your only true democrat.—Mrs. Stowe.

It is the most beautiful truth in morals that we have no such thing as a distinct or divided interest from our race.--In their welfare is ours; and by choosing the broadest paths to effect their happiness, we choose the surest and shortest to our own.Bulwer.

Knowledge and goodness-these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy.Miss Sedgwick.

Lycurgus being asked why he, who in other respects appeared to be so zealous for the equal rights of men, did not make his government democratic rather than an oligarchy, replied, "Go you, and try a democracy in your own house." -Plutarch.

If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically; so perfect a government is not suitable to men.-Rousseau.

Intellectual superiority is so far from conciliating confidence that it is the very spirit of a democracy, as in France, to proscribe the aristocracy of talents. To be the favorite of an ignorant multitude, a man must descend to their level; he must desire what they desire. and detest all they do not approve he must yield to their prejudices, and substitute them for principles. Instead of enlightening their errors, he must adopt them, and must furnish the sophistry that will propagate and defend them.Fisher Ames.

DEPENDENCE.

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from the delusive to the real, and make a new blessed world of us bye and bye.—Carlyle.

The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient, and the most permanent tendency which is to be found in history.-De Tocqueville.

The devil was the first democrat.-Byron.

"It is a great blessing," says Pascal, "to be born a man of quality, since it brings a man as far forward at eighteen or twenty as another would be at fifty, which is a clear gain of thirty years."-These thirty years are commonly wanting to the ambitious characters of democracies.-The principle of equality, which allows every mau to arrive at everything, prevents all men from rapid advancement.-De Tocqueville.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other, but that every one shall have liberty, without hindrance, to be what God made him.-H. W. Beecher.

DEPENDENCE.-There is none SO great but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.-Seneca.

God has made no one absolute.-The rich depend on the poor, as well as the poor on the rich.-The world is but a magnificent building; all the stones are gradually cemented together. -No one subsists by himself alone.-Feltham.

No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.-Johnson.

Dependence is a perpetual call upon humanity, and a greater incitement to tenderness and pity than any other motive whatever. -Thackeray.

The greatest man living may stand in need of the meanest, as much as the meanest does of him.-Fuller.

Heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed, that man should ever stand in need of man.-Theocritus.

Dependence goes somewhat against the grain of a generous mind; and it is no wonder that it should do so, considering the unreasonable advantage which is often taken of the inequality of fortune.-Jeremy Collier.

In an arch, each single stone, which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless, is sufficiently secured by the

solidity and entireness of the whole fabric of which it is a part.-Boyle.

How beautifully is it ordered, that as many thousands work for one, so must every individual bring his labor to make the whole. The highest is not to despise the lowest, nor the lowest to envy the highest; each must live in all and by all.So God has ordered, that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other, and to bear each other's burdens.-G. A. Sala.

The acknowledgment of weakness which we make in imploring to be relieved from hunger and from temptation, is surely wisely put in our prayer.-Think of it, you who are rich, and take heed how you turn a beggar away.-Thackeray.

The beautiful must ever rest in the arms of the sublime.-The gentle need the strong to sustain it, as much as the rock-flowers need rocks to grow on, or the ivy the rugged wall which it embraces.—Mrs. Stowe.

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself.--He only who acts conscientiously towards himself, will act so towards others.-Lavater.

DEPRAVITY.-(See "SIN.")

We are all sinful; and whatever one of us blames in another each one will find in his own heart.-Seneca.

Men sometimes affect to deny the depravity of our race; but it is as clearly taught in the lawyers' office and in courts of justice, as in the Bible itself.-Every prison, and fetter, and scaffold, and bolt, and bar, and chain is evidence that man believes in the depravity of man.-Tryon Edwards.

Controlled depravity is not innocence; and it is not the labor of delinquency in chains that will correct abuses. Never did a serious plan of amending any old tyrannical establishment propose the authors and abettors of the abuses as the reformers of them.-Burke.

Every man has his devilish moments.Lavater.

Original sin is in us, like the beard.We are shaved to-day and look clean, and have a smooth chin; to-morrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth.-In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live.— Nevertheless we are bound to resist it to our utmost strength, and to cut it down unceasingly.-Luther.

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We have such an habitual persuasion of the general depravity of human nature,

DESIRE.

that in falling in with strangers we almost always reckon on their being irreligious, till we discover some specific indication of the contrary.-J. Foster.

It is not occasionally that the human soul is under the influence of depravity; but this is its habit and state till the soul is renewed by grace.-Dick.

DESIRE.-Desires are the pulses of the soul; -as physicians judge by the appetite, so may you by desires.-Manton.

The thirst of desire is never filled, nor fully satisfied.-Cicero.

It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow.— Rochefoucauld.

The reason that so many want their desires, is, that their desires want reason.He may do what he will, who will do but what he may.- Warwick.

Every one would have something, such perhaps as we are ashamed to utter. The proud man would have honor; the covetous man, wealth and abundance; the malicious, revenge on his enemies; the epicure, pleasure and long life; the barren, children; the wanton, beauty'; each would be humored in his own desire, though in opposition both to God's will, and his own good.-Bp. Hall.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion; he whose real wants are supplied, must admit those of fancy.—Johnson.

Those things that are not practicable are not desirable. There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit. There is nothing that God has judged good for us that he has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world. If we cry, like children, for the moon, like children we must cry on.Burke.

Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand, than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.Johnson.

The stoical schemes of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.Swift.

A wise man will desire no more than he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

The passions and desires, like the two twists of a rope, mutually mix one with the other, and twine inextricably round the

heart; producing good, if moderately indulged; but certain destruction, if suffered to become inordinate.—Burton.

By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind.-Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.—Helvetius.

Every desire bears its death in its very gratification. Curiosity languishes under repeated stimulants, and novelties cease to excite surprise, until at length we do not wonder even at a miracle.- Washington Irving.

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.-Bover.

Inordinate desires commonly produce irregular endeavors. If our wishes be not kept in submission to God's providence, our pursuits will scarcely be kept under the restraints of his precepts.-M. Henry

Our nature is inseparable from desires, and the very word desire-the craving for something not possessed-implies that our present felicity is not complete.-Hobbes.

However rich or elevated we may be, a nameless something is always wanting to our imperfect fortune.-Horace.

Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.-Sir P. Sidney.

Before we passionately desire anything which another enjoys, we should examine as to the happiness of its possessor.-Rochefoucauld.

He who can wait for what he desires, takes the course not to be exceedinglý grieved if he fails of it; he on the contrary who labors after a thing too impatiently, thinks the success when it comes is not a recompense equal to all the pains he has been at about it.—Bruyère.

There is nothing capricious in nature; and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feels it.-Emerson.

In moderating, not in satisfying desires, lies peace.-Heber.

The soul of man is infinite in what it covets.-Ben Jonson.

When a man's desires are boundless, his labors are endless.-They will set him a task he can never go through, and cut him out work he can never finish.-The satisfaction he seeks is always absent, and the happiness he aims at is ever at a distance.Balguy.

It should be an indispensable rule in life to contract our desires to our present con