DESTINY. And this is woman's fate: all her affections are called into life by winning flatteries, and then thrown back upon themselves to perish; and her heart, her trusting heart, filled with weak tenderness, is left to bleed or break! --L. E. Landon. Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. Shakspeare. Can man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace, or their father and mother. - George Eliot. Men are what their mothers made them. You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckabuck why it does not make cashmere, as to expect poetry from this engineer or a chemical discovery from that jobber. - Emerson. Like Dian's kiss, unasked, unsought, love gives itself, but is not bought. - Longfellow. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds; love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, but bears it out even to the edge of doom. Shakspeare. The days of chivalry are not gone, notwithstanding Burke's grand dirge over them; they live still in that far-off worship paid by many a youth and man to the woman of whom he never dreams that he shall touch so much as her little finger, or the hem of her robe. George Eliot. Men must work, and women must weep.- Everything is done by immutable laws, and our destiny is already recorded. - Voltaire. We are all sure of two things, at least: we shall suffer, and we shall all die. Goldsmith. DEVOTEDNESS. The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in woman. Macaulay. The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet. George Eliot. There are other books in a man's library besides Ovid, and after dawdling ever so long at a woman's knee, one day he gets up and is free. We have all been there; we have all had the fever, the strongest and the smallest, from Samson, Hercules, Rinaldo, downward: but it burns out, and you get well. - Thackeray. Complete self-devotion is woman's part. It was Dean Swift who ignored the bill of fare, and asked for a bill of the company. N. P. Willis. Unquiet meals make ill digestion. Shakspeare. Macaulay. DEW. Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal Gems which adorn the beauteous tresses of within the compass of a guinea. the weeping morn. Poole. Washington Irving. Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other. Metastasio. DIFFIDENCE. DIGNITY. 107 DISAPPOINTMENT. DIGNITY. Dignity is often a veil between us and the A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as a dose real truth of things. Whipple. of arsenic to life.-J. G. Holland. By those who look close to the ground dirt will be seen. I hope I see things from a - Dr. Johnson. Let none presume to wear an undeserved greater distance. dignity. Shakspeare. Dirt has been shrewdly termed "misplaced material.". Victor Hugo. DISAPPOINTMENT. 108 DISCRETION. Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where DISCONTENT. it most promises. Shakspeare. Disappointment to a noble soul is what cold water is to burning metal; it strengthens, tempers, intensifies, but never destroys it. Eliza Tabor. Life often seems like a long shipwreck, of which the débris are friendship, glory, and love: the shores of existence are strewn with them.Mme. de Staël. O world, how many hopes thou dost engulf! Alfred de Musset. Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love. - Henry Taylor. The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough. - Horace. Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress in individuals and in nations. Auerbach. Men would be angels; angels would be gods. "T is not my talent to conceal my thoughts, or carry smiles and sunshine in my face when discontent sits heavy at my heart. Addison. O thoughts of men accurst! Past and to come seems best; things present, worst.— Shakspeare. Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment Attainment is followed by neglect, and possesthat we are always impatient of the present. sion by disgust. Dr. Johnson. Unity, agreement, is always silent or soft- Untimely conduct is the discord of manners. Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay. Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental Our life is full of discord; but by forbearance novels that people occupy themselves perpet-and virtue this same discord can be turned to ually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed. Thackeray. harmony. - James Ellis. A modicum of discord is the very spice of courtship. Chamfort. How sour sweet music is when time is broke, and no proportion kept! So it is in the music of men's lives. Shakspeare. |