tones, 275 , 33; state of, 559 , 2; the, all holy, 447 , 5; the, and our concerns, 170 , 15; the, Carlyle's apostrophe to, 323 , 2; the, our need of, 422 , 43; the, our sole duty to, 540 , 39; the, purifying power of, 439 , 17; the, respect due to, 329 , 29; to bury their dead, 242 , 46 Dealing , fair, blessed effect of, 312 , 34; plain, 349 , 13, 14 Dear to another, dear to self, 172 , 31 Dearest , the, 54 , 19 Death , a deliverer, 248 , 11, 12; a happy, 140 , 15; a joy, 288 , 8; a matter of time, 414 , 26; a man mightier than, 532 , 23; a necessity, 10 , 33; a new birth, 116 , 2; a radical cure, 246 , 46; a reconciler, 79 , 24; a release, 61 , 28; a sleep, 519 , 34; a swift rider, 43 , 31; a universal interest, 253 , 41; an awakening, 246 , 46; an awakening as from nightmare, 250 , 7; and his brother sleep, 163 , 2; and sleep, 393 , 37; and sun not to be looked at, 235 , 15; and the puny body, 283 , 59; and the thought of, contrasted, 226 , 20; beautiful, 160 , 49; but parting breath, 326 , 18; common to all ages, 328 , 5; often comparatively painless, 270 , 1; effect of, on life, 247 , 37; end of all, 481 , 14; everywhere, 366 , 48; fear of, lamentable, 167 , 53; fear of, 275 , 7; fear of, most strange, 284 , 37; finishing touch, 234 , 14; gate of life, 283 , 56; gloried in by Nature, 291 , 5; gradual, 523 , 32; fearlessness of him who does not fear, 520 , 14; happy, a, 124 , 37; honour in, 159 , 31; how to escape or invite, 77 , 38; how to overcome, 517 , 30; if gods or no gods, 205 , 33; impartiality of, 341 , 4; implied in birth, 289 , 41; in battle, 386 , 19; in nature, birth, 9 , 19; mystery of, 25 , 31; necessary to life, 403 , 14; no discharge from, 473 , 24; no evil, 202 , 34; no remedy against, 47 , 31; no surprise to the wise, 226 , 21; no worse than life, 167 , 26; not feared beforehand, 168 , 33; not subject to fortune, 245 , 6; not the worst of evils, 309 , 17; not to be feared, in battle, 567 , 12; not to be forgotten, 262 , 20; not to be thought of, 334 , 1; of no season, 237 , 1; only in meaner parts, 116 , 16; ordained law of, 206 , 22; our farthest limit, 283 , 60; path of, to be trodden by all, 328 , 4; patiently submitted to, 72 , 38; peace to be made with, 74 , 36; Plato on, 306 , 19; pomp of, 448 , 22; principle of, received at birth, 19 , 57; reconciling, 319 , 6; Regnier on, 210 , 38; repose from all toils, 283 , 57; river of, to be crossed by all, 327 , 57; sayings on, 491 , 35-37; sense of, in apprehension, 453 , 10; sting of, 497 , 10; sting of, felt by survivor, 544 , 17; sudden, 368 , 15; that puts an end to pain, 408 , 25; the fear of, 200 , 23; the fearless of, 364 , 7; the fell sergeant, 481 , 35; the most desirable, 550 , 3; the poor man's dearest friend, 325 , 50; the sole, 110 , 7; the solemnity associated with, effect of, 352 , 18; the true, 512 , 34; the thought of, 19 , 14; 173 , 33; triumphed over and led captive of, 269 , 24; 250 , 19; way to, open, 311 , 50; who fears, 532 , 9; 551 , 17; who fears not, 150 , 19; 441 , 6; whoso can look on, 554 , 7 Death-bed of a man, two queries over the, 542 , 1 Debt , avoidance of, a first duty, 241 , 19; effects of, 5 , 21; evil of, 11 , 65; freedom from, 86 , 43; known when accounts come in, 333 , 40; two ways of paying, 466 , 30; not lessened by care, 38 , 6, 7; to be avoided, 368 , 26; without supper rather than in, 29 , 24 Debts , all paid, 145 , 50; and sins, their number, 392 , 54; as legacy, 66 , 11; cleared by borrowing, 315 , 18; great and small, 394 , 22; small and heavy, effect of, 244 , 27 Decay , contrasted with growth, 48 , 9 Deceit , deceptiveness of, 7 , 28; effect of experience in, 447 , 22; art of, 416 , 30 Deceived , twice, a disgrace, 171 , 12 Deceiving , a deception, 274 , 8; the deceiver, pleasure of, 38 , 43 Decency , connected with virtue and vice, 225 , 6; indispensability of, 105 , 51; want of, 183 , 18 Deception , always of self, 266 , 22; and self-deception, 199 , 46; limited, 39 , 31; of appearances, 56 , 36; universal, 28 , 52, 53 Decision , haste in, 4 , 48 Decoration , the first spiritual want, 428 , 37 Deed , committed, 27 , 20; good, in naughty world, 161 , 14; noble, effect on us of, 547 , 27; {pg 586} versus fame of it, 155 , 31; one good, dying tongueless, 332 , 23; only avails, 457 , 18 Deeds , causes of, spiritual, 528 , 16; compared with words, 562 , 16; contrasted with words, 166 , 4; evil, cannot be blazoned, 312 , 18; evil, vengeance in heart of, 211 , 49; foul, will rise, 113 , 52; good, value of, 129 , 24; great, immortal, 133 , 18, 19; great, power of, 243 , 17; men children of their, 522 , 22; more urgent than knowledge, 25 , 24; name of, from issue, 159 , 42; not always to be acknowledged in words, 6 , 65; not forgotten, 277 , 15; not words, 99 , 11; of man, known to the Gods, 284 , 2; one's, the aim of, 163 , 10; our, sayings about, 337 , 34-36; pain of, lost in the glory, 192 , 35; past, compared with deeds now, 314 , 15; power of, 64 , 11; productive power of, 211 , 48; rather than words, 281 , 8; time for, 457 , 42; to be reciprocated, 1 , 9; unnatural, 508 , 13; when properly achieved, 185 , 9 Deep , the howling, and its contents, 519 , 9; the, riches in, 185 , 51 Defeat , from self alone, 313 , 41; in a foreign land, 334 , 33 Defection , a, to be reprobated, 200 , 3 Defects , as parts of character, 38 , 28; great, who have any business with, 334 , 49; moral, attributed to nature, 476 , 12; allowed only to great men, 179 , 46; without number, 414 , 38 Defence , an insufficient, 534 , 18 Deference , effect of, on manners, 493 , 1 Deficiencies , as signs, 184 , 40 Defilement , moral source of, 475 , 18 Definite , a, to be aimed at, 526 , 36 Definition , importance of, 145 , 31; value of power of, 145 , 9 Deformed , the, displeasing, 314 , 31 Deformity , the only, 188 , 22 Degeneracy from man, 94 , 33 Degree , a professional, necessary, 79 , 36 Deil , the, Burns to, 229 , 31 Deity , omniscience of, 78 , 26; the, as raising up and casting down, 511 , 15 Dejection , extreme ignorance, 60 , 18; great, after enthusiasm, 133 , 20 Delay , danger of, 162 , 34; effect of, 104 , 48; effect of, on temper, 101 , 30; hateful, but profitable, 283 , 10; that is good, 129 , 40; waste, 185 , 54 Delays , dangerous, 57 , 4 Deliberation , evil of too long, 532 , 25; life wasted in, 527 , 46; long, contrasted with hasty action, 229 , 34; necessity of, 57 , 43 Delicacy , admired by men, 67 , 8; in thought and speech, 269 , 48; sympathy inlet to, 302 , 25 Delight , but a sip, 19 , 45; how to foster, 546 , 18; to, as an aim, 89 , 4 Delights , to scorn, 495 , 26; violent, their end, 514 , 32; purchased with pain, 9 , 21 Delirium , as a common failing, 432 , 34 Deliverance , only road to, 444 , 40; solely from within, 559 , 20 Deliverer , the hour of his coming, 546 , 7 Deluded , the worst, 465 , 29 Delusion , gain in shaking off a, 79 , 1; triumphs of, 458 , 31 Delusions often sent as a snare, 327 , 38 Demigods , incredible, 165 , 11 Democracy , a, the likely fate of, 13 , 53; from Christianity, 43 , 2; its presence, 444 , 29; meaning of, 416 , 34; not our goal, 313 , 22; Ruskin's definition of, 4 , 8; test of, Lycurgus', 125 , 8 Democrat , the, defined, 423 , 2 Demon world, the, and its influence, 186 , 43 Demonic , the, defined, 423 , 4 Denial , alternation of periods of, with faith, 187 , 49; danger of, 243 , 35; the practice and regulation of, 491 , 31 Denier , the, and his delight, 423 , 1 Deniers , how to treat, 483 , 20 Departed , the, we love, still with us, 539 , 1 Departure , our point of, clear, 539 , 19 Dependence , man's, 193 , 13; the evil of, 413 , 3; voluntary, noble, 114 , 38 Depth , the, not to be dived into, 555 , 15 Deputies , God's, 125 , 53 Derision , often poverty of wit, 226 , 18 Descent , boasting of, 363 , 34 Descriptions , practical worthlessness of, 306 , 32 Desert , good or ill, as treated by God, 28 , 4; what one may learn in the, 190 , 23 Deserts , publishing one's, 530 , 7 Designing often harder than doing, 269 , 49 Desirable not always attainable, 297 , 51 Desire , a viper in the bosom, 90 , 40; accomplished, 423 , 7; as part of our nature, 338 , 39; darkening power of, 98 , 27; from admiration, 538 , 38; impatient of delay, 88 , 12; inordinate, effect of, 547 , 34; its gratification, its death, 90 , 39; no satisfying, 276 , 25; objects of, everywhere, 414 , 35; out of the shot and danger of, 217 , 41; short of, more than desert, 150 , 33; suppressing, easier than satisfying, 201 , 19; the breath of life, 409 , 12; to be limited, 46 , 56; 386 , 27; to be sacrificed to duty, 241 , 40; unsatisfactory fruit of, 473 , 34; unsatisfied, the evil of, 386 , 35; when rational, 527 , 20 Desires , how to regulate, 188 , 13; unlawful and impossible, 507 , 45 Despair , contrasted with rage, 367 , 36; effect of, on our powers, 233 , 18; finishing blow to misery, 233 , 17; outcome of, 540 , 29; the evil of, 206 , 30; the measure of hope, 423 , 6 Despatch , evil of too great, 401 , 37; quick, virtue of, 546 , 14 Desperation , rule in, 186 , 10 Despicable , the alone, 482 , 35 Despising , after reading, 237 , 9; only after examining, 448 , 3 Despot , and his despotism, 233 , 10; in times of anarchy, 192 , 4; the only true, 369 , 37 Despotism , defined, 540 , 30, 36; defied by despair, 62 , 17; effect of, on a man, 407 , 5; effect on, of unsuccessful revolts against, 22 , 10; fatal to patriotism, 506 , 21; in Russia, 233 , 19; life under a, 184 , 11; modern, 226 , 6 Despots , how to judge of, 526 , 43; poor as others, 35 , 5; sway of, 35 , 5 Destination of man, 312 , 20 Destinies , founding of, 30 , 17; higher, a path to, 402 , 17 Destiny , a preacher, 476 , 15; and man, 359 , 30; coerced by the strong, 319 , 15; great, if not known, 86 , 14; in substance always the same, 163 , 9; man's, in his own hands, 92 , 38; not to be arrested by us, 556 , 30; our limit, 82 , 61; over our horizon, 144 , 37; power of, 266 , 5; riddle of, how to resolve, 96 , 21; saddening, 264 , 1; the car of one's, how to manage, 456 22; the saddest, 493 , 10; urn of, clutching into, 313 , 28; wheel of, not to be checked, 551 , 44 Destroyer , of thousands, helpless to embrace two, 154 , 45; the, and
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

To win distinction early in life is said to quench and satisfy the eagerness of some men whose desire for glory is not keen; but for those with whom it is the ruling passion of their lives, the gaining of honours only urges them on, as a ship is urged by a gale, to fresh achievements.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

At the very first word about giving you a start she flamed out about some money you'd got from Gus; I never knew her so hot before.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

the Moon applying to him, or his good aspect at the gathering, I never knew it miss the desired effect.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

And all the time the precious Minutes fluttered by Banker Jasper Grinder, in Nicodemus, Kansas, Minute after minute, Was approaching nearer to the hour of his desire . .
— from The Old Soak, and Hail And Farewell by Don Marquis

"— Id. "To what place he was going, is not known.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

The reply of the Chinese Government is not known, but it is safe to infer that assurance would be given that orders would be issued to the provincial authorities to [Pg 235] enforce the law prohibiting the cultivation of the poppy.
— from Peking Dust by Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold) La Motte

"Well, she wouldn't gib 'im no kin' er 'couragement, tell he got right sick at his heart, he did; an' one day, ez he wuz er settin' in his nes' an' er steddin how ter wuck on Miss Robin so's ter git her love, he hyeard somebody er laughin' an' talkin', an' he lookt out, he did, an' dar wuz Miss Robin er prumurradin' wid de Woodpecker.
— from Diddie, Dumps, and Tot; Or, Plantation Child-Life by Louise Clarke Pyrnelle

"But, thanks be to God, I now know that the light that was then in me was darkness; my natural man did not discern the things of the Spirit; they were foolishness unto me.
— from Deficient Saints: A Tale of Maine by Marshall Saunders

on the Trust's investment in them, but guessing is not knowledge; it is merely, in this case, a sort of nine-tenths certainty deducible from what we think we know of the Trust's trade principles and its sly and furtive and shifty ways.
— from The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

I do assure you, as a gentleman, I never knew him to say the thing that was not.'
— from Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Then said Gullrönd, The daughter of Gjuki: I never knew A greater love Among all men Upon earth Than that of you two.
— from The Viking Age. Volume 2 (of 2) The early history, manners, and customs of the ancestors of the English-speaking nations by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu