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muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.-Richter.

Those move easiest, who have learned to dance.-Pope.

A merry, dancing, drinking, laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.-Dryden.

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Dancing is an amusement which has been discouraged in our country by many of the best people, and not without some reason. It is associated in their mind with balls; and this is one of the worst forms of social pleasure. The time consumed in preparing for a ball, the waste of thought upon it, the extravagance of dress, the late hours, the exhaustion of strength, the exposure of health, and the languor of the succeeding day-these and other evils connected with this amusement, are strong reasons for banishing it from the community.-But dancing ought not, therefore, to be proscribed. On the contrary, balls should be discouraged for this among other reasons, that dancing, instead of being a rare pleasure, requiring elaborate preparation, may become an everyday amusement, and mix with our common intercourse.-This exercise is among the most healthful.-The body as well as the mind feels its gladdening influence.-No amusement seems more to have a foundation in our nature.-The animation of youth overflows spontaneously in harmonious movements.-The true idea of dancing entitles it to favor.-Its end is to realize perfect grace in motion; and who does not know that a sense of the graceful is one of the higher faculties of our nature. Channing.

The chief benefit of dancing is to learn one how to sit still.-Johnson.

Learn to dance, not so much for the sake of dancing, as for coming into a room and presenting yourself genteely and gracefully. -Women, whom you ought to endeavor to please, cannot forgive a vulgar and awkward air and gestures.-Chesterfield.

In ancient times dancing as a religions service, was before and to the Lord; in modern days it is too often a dissipating amusement for and to the devil.

A ball-room is nothing more or less than a great market place of beauty.-For my part, were I a buyer, I should like making my purchases in a less public mart.Bulwer.

You may be invited to a ball or dinner because you dance or tell a good story; but no one since the time of Queen Elizabeth has been made a cabinet minister or a lord chancellor for such reasons.-E. Pierrepont.

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Well was it said, by a man of sagacity, that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was, to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone.-Gotthold.

For children and youth, dancing in the parlor or on the green may be a very pleasant and healthful amusement, but when we see older people dancing we are ready to ask with the Chinese, "Why don't you have your servants do it for you?"

All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.-Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death, and all kinds of mischief are likewise on the floor. -Gotthold.

DANDY.-A dandy is a clothes-wearing man, a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes.— Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person, and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object-the wearing of clothes wisely and well; so that as others dress to live, he lives to dress.-Carlyle.

A fool may have his coat embroidered with gold, but it is a fool's coat still.— Rivarol.

Dandies, when first-rate. are generally very agreeable men.-Bulwer,

The all-importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy, without effort, like an instinct of genius: he is inspired with cloth-a poet of clothing.Carlyle.

DANGER. - Danger levels man and brute, and all are fellows in their need.Byron.

We should never so entirely avoid danger as to appear irresolute and cowardly; but, at the same time, we should avoid unnecessarily exposing ourselves to danger, than which nothing can be more foolish.-Cicero. A timid person is frightened before a danger; a coward during the time; and a courageous person afterward.-Richter.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.-Quarles.

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.— Collon.

A man's opinion of danger varies at different times according to his animal spirits;

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and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow.-Smollett.

DAUGHTERS.-To a father waxing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.-Sons have spirits of higher pitch, but less inclined to sweet, endearing fondness.-Euripides.

A daughter is an embarrassing and ticklish possession.—Menander.

Fathers, I think, are most apt to appreciate the excellence and attainments of their daughters; mothers, those of their

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DAY.-There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is, that people can commend it without envy.-Shenstone,

Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. Therefore live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it are desperate.-Bp. Hall,

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Count that day lost, whose low descending sun views from thy hand no worthy action done.--Stanford.

"I've lost a day "--the prince who nobly cried, had been an emperor without his crown.-Young.

Enjoy the blessings of the day if God sends them and the evils bear patiently and sweetly; for this day only is ours: we are dead to yesterday, and not born to tomorrow.--Jeremy Taylor.

DEATH. It is not death, it is dying that alarms me.-Montaigne.

Death is as the foreshadowing of life. We die that we may die no more.-Herman Hooker.

This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.-Tryon Edwards.

Men fear death, as if unquestionably the greatest evil, and yet no man knows that it may not be the greatest good.-W. Mitford.

We call it death to leave this world, but were we once out of it, and enstated into the happiness of the next, we should think it were dying indeed to come back to it again. Sherlock.

Death has nothing terrible which life has not made so. A faithful Christian life in this world is the best preparation for the next. Tryon Edwards.

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by Providence as an evil to mankind.-Swift.

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We understand death for the first time when he puts his hand upon one whom we love.-Mad. De Staël.

Death is like thunder in two particulars: we are alarmed at the sound of it, and it is formidable only from that which preceded it.-Collon.

Death, to a good man, is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his father's house, into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.Clarke.

Death is not, to the Christian, what it has often been called, "Paying the debt of nature." No, it is not paying a debt; it is rather like bringing a note to a bank to obtain solid gold in exchange for it. You bring a cumbrous body which is nothing worth, and which you could not wish to retain long; you lay it down, and receive for it, from the eternal treasures, liberty, victory, knowledge, and rapture.-John Foster.

We picture death as coming to destroy; let us rather picture Christ as coming to save. We think of death as ending; let us rather think of life as beginning, and that more abundantly. We think of losing; let us think of gaining. We think of parting; let us think of meeting. We think of going away; let us think of arriving. And as the voice of death whispers "You must go from earth," let us hear the voice of Christ saying, "You are but coming to Me!"-N. Macleod.

No man who is fit to live need fear to die. To us here, death is the most terrible thing we know. But when we have tasted its reality it will mean to us birth, deliverance, a new creation of ourselves. It will be what health is to the sick man; what home is to the exile; what the loved one given back is to the bereaved. As we draw near to it a solemn gladness should fill our hearts. It is God's great morning lighting up the sky. Our fears are the terror of children in the night, The night with its terrors, its darkness, its feverish dreams, is passing away; and when we awake it will be into the sunlight of God.-Fuller.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Lucan.

A wise and due consideration of our latter end, is neither to render us sad, melancholy, disconsolate, or unfit for the business and offices of life; but to make us more watchful, vigilant, industrious, sober, cheerful, and thankful to that God who hath been pleased thus to make us serviceable to him,

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comfortable to ourselves, and profitable to others; and after all this, to take away the bitterness and sting of death, through Jesus Christ our Lord.-Sir M. Hale.

One may live as a conqueror, a king, or a magistrate; but he must die a man. The bed of death brings every human being to his pure individuality, to the intense contemplation of that deepest and most solemn of all relations-the relation between the creature and his Creator.-Daniel Webster.

If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain him; if as an enemy, prepare to overcome him.-Death has no advantage except when he comes as a stranger.— Quarles.

What a superlatively grand and consoling idea is that of death! Without this radiant idea this delightful morning star, indicating that the luminary of eternity is going to rise, life would, to my view, darken into midnight melancholy. The expectation of living here, and living thus always, would be indeed a prospect of overwhelming despair. But thanks to that fatal decree that dooms ns to die; thanks to that gospel which opens the visions of an endless life; and thanks above all to that Saviour friend who has promised to conduct the faithful through the sacred trance of death, into scenes of Paradise and everlasting delight.-John Foster.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.-Milton.

Death expecteth thee everywhere; be wise, therefore, and expect death everywhere. Quarles.

The ancients feared death; we, thanks to Christianity, fear only dying.-Guesses at Truth.

Death is the crown of life.-Were death denied, poor man would live in vain; to live would not be life; even fools would wish to die.-Young.

Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it.-It unloosens the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task in another's hands.-Sterne.

Be still prepared for death: and death or life shall thereby be the sweeter.-Shakespeare.

To neglect, at any time, preparation for death, is to sleep on our post at a siege; to omit it in old age, is to sleep at an attack.— Johnson.

One of the fathers says, "There is but this difference between the death of old men and young; that old men go to death, and death comes to the young.'

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at the same time, teach them to live.Montaigne.

A dislike of death is no proof of the want of religion. The instincts of nature shrink from it, for no creature can like its own dissolution. But though death is not desired, the result of it may be, for dying to the Christian is the way to life eternal.W. Jay.

A good man, when dying, once said, Formerly death appeared to me like wide river, but now it has dwindled to a little rill; and my comforts, which were as the rill, have become the broad and deep river.

He whom the gods love, dies young.Menander.

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.-Walter Scott.

The air is full of farewells to the dying, and mournings for the dead.--Longfellow.

The good die first; and they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, burn to the socket. Wordsworth.

Cullen, in his last moments, whispered, "I wish I had the power of writing or speaking, for then I would describe to you how pleasant a thing it is to die.-Derby.

The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.-Richter.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.-Young.

Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release; the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure; the comforter of him whom time cannot console.-Colton.

Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.-Epictetus.

On death and judgment, heaven and hell, who oft doth think, must needs die well.Sir W. Raleigh.

It matters not at what hour the righteous fall asleep.-Death cannot come untimely to him who is fit to die.--The less of this cold world the more of heaven; the briefer life, the earlier immortality.-Milman.

There is no better armor against the shafts of death than to be busied in God's service.--Fuller.

He who always waits upon God, is ready whensoever he calls.-He is a happy man who so lives that death at all times may find him at leisure to die.-Feltham.

Let dissolution come when it will, it can do the Christian no harm, for it will be but a passage out of a prison into a palace; out of a sea of troubles, into a haven of rest;

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out of a crowd of enemies, to an innumerable company of true, loving, and faithful friends; out of shame, reproach, and contempt, into exceeding great and eternal glory.-Bunyan.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.-Hawthorne,

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.-Michael Angelo.

If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.-Rousseau.

Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world.-Richter.

Living is death; dying is life. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that, citizens; on this side orphons, on that, children; on this side captives, on that, freemen; on this side disguised, unknown, on that disclosed and proclaimed as the sons of God.-H. W. Beecher.

It is as natural to man to die, as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps the one is as painful as the other.-Bacon.

Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity.-As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.-Emmons.

Ah! what a sign it is of evil life, when death's approach is seen so terrible !-Shakespeare.

How shocking must thy summons be, O death, to him that is at ease in his possessions! who, counting on long years of pleasure here, is quite unfurnished for the world to come.--Blair.

I love to think of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school--at the best school in the universe, under the best teachers, learning the best things, in the best possible manner.

Readiness for death is that of character, rather than of occupation. It is right living which prepares for safe or even joyous dying.

O death! We thank thee for the light that thou wilt shed upon our ignorance.Bossuet.

I believe that a family lives but a half life until it has sent its forerunners into the heavenly world, until those who linger here can cross the river, and fold transfigured a glorious form in the embrace of an endless life. Bridgman.

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I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.-H. A. Hamilton.

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There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call death.-Longfellow.

When I am dying I want to know that I have a similarity to God, so that my will is the same as his will, and that I love and hate and wish what he does.-J. Cook.

The bad man's death is horror; but the just does but ascend to glory from the dust.-Habbington.

When the sun goes below the horizon, he is not set; the heavens glow for a full hour after his departure.-And when a great and good man sets, the sky of this world is luminous long after he is out of sight.Such a man cannot die out of this world.When he goes he leaves behind much of himself.-Being dead he speaks.-H. W. Beecher.

Death is but the dropping of the flower that the fruit may swell.-H. W. Beecher.

Alexander the Great, seeing Diogenes looking attentively at a parcel of human bones, asked the philosopher what he was looking for. "That which I cannot find," was the reply; "the difference between your father's bones and those of his slaves."

A good man being asked during his last illness, whether he thought himself dying, "Really, friend, I care not whether I am or not; for if I die I shall be with God; if I live, He will be with me."

Not by lamentations and mournful chants ought we to celebrate the funeral of a good man, but by hymns, for in ceasing to be numbered with mortals he enters upon the heritage of a diviner life.- Plutarch.

Leaves have their time to fall, and flowers to wither at the North-wind's breath, and stars to set-but all, thou hast all seasons for thine own, O death!-Mrs. Hemans.

The sense of death is most in apprehension, and the poor beetle that we tread upon feels a pang as great as when a giant dies.-Shakespeare.

The chamber where the good man meets his fate is privileged beyond the common walk of virtuons life, quite on the verge of heaven.-Young.

As long as we are living, God will give us living grace, and he wont give us dying grace till it's time to die. What's the use of trying to feel like dying when you aint dying, nor anywhere near it?-H. W. Beecher.

I know of but one remedy against the fear of death that is effectual and that will stand the test either of a sick-bed, or of a sound mind-that is, a good life, a clear

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conscience, an honest heart, and a wellordered conversation; to carry the thoughts of dying men about us, and so to live before we die as we shall wish we had when we come to it.-Norris.

Man's highest triumph, man's profoundest fall, the death-bed of the just is yet undrawn by mortal hand; it merits a divine angels should paint it, angels ever there; there, on a post of honor and of joy.-Young.

Be of good cheer about death, and know this of a truth, that no evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.Socrates.

Death did not first strike Adam, the first sinful man, nor Cain, the first hypocrite, but Abel, the innocent and righteous.-The first son that met death overcame death; the first soul parted from earth went to heaven.--Death argues not displeasure, because he whom God loved best dies first, and the murderer is punished with living.Bp. Hall.

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DEBT. I have discovered the philosopher's stone, that turns everything into gold: it is, "Pay as you go.”—John Randolph.

Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes.-The debthabit is the twin brother of poverty.-T. T. Munger.

Run not into debt, either for wares sold, or money borrowed; be content to want things that are not of absolute necessity, rather than to run up the score: such a man pays, at the latter end, a third part more than the principal, and is in perpetual servitude to his creditors; lives uncomfortably; is necessitated to increase his debts to stop his creditors' mouths; and many times falls into desperate courses.Sir M. Hale.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.-Johnson.

Poverty is hard, but debt is horrible.-A man might as well have a smoky house and a scolding wife, which are said to be the two worst evils of our life.-Spurgeon.

Think what you do when you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty. If you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor; will be in fear when you speak to him; will make poor, pitiful, sneaking excuses, and by degrees come to lose your veracity, and sink into base, downright lying; for the second vice is lying, the first is running in debt. A freeborn man ought not to be ashamed

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Paying of debts is, next to the grace of God, the best means of delivering you from a thousand temptations to vanity and sin. -Pay your debts, and you will not have wherewithal to buy costly toys or pernicious pleasures.-Pay your debts, and you will not have what to lose to a gamester.Pay your debts, and you will of necessity abstain from many indulgences that war against the spirit and bring you into captivity to sin, and cannot fail to end in your utter destruction, both of soul and body.— Delany.

"Out of debt, out of danger," is, like many other proverbs, full of wisdom; but the word danger does not sufficiently express all that the warning demands.-For a state of debt and embarrassment is a state of positive misery, and the sufferer is as one haunted by an evil spirit, and his heart can know neither rest nor peace till it is cast out.-Bridges.

A man who owes a little can clear it off in a little time, and, if he is prudent, he will: whereas a man, who, by long negligence, owes a great deal, despairs of ever being able to pay, and therefore never looks into his accounts at all.-Chesterfield.

A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy.-Publius Syrus.

Debt is to a man what the serpent is to the bird; its eye fascinates, its breath poisons, its coil crushes sinew and bone, its jaw is the pitiless grave.-Bulwer.

DECEIT. There is no wickedness so desperate or deceptive-we can never foresee its consequences.

Of all the evil spirits abroad in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.-Froude.

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.-Crabbe.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.-Hauthorne.

Idiots only may be cozened twice.Dryden.

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