Part 23

~Declamation.~--Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions, or musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious; where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view.--Goldsmith.

The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.--Colton.

~Deeds.~--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.

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

Legal deeds were invented to remind men of their promises, or to convict them of having broken them,--a stigma on the human race.--Bruyère.

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

We should believe only in works; words are sold for nothing everywhere.--Rojas.

~Delay.~--We do not directly go about the execution of the purpose that thrills us, but shut our doors behind us, and ramble with prepared minds, as if the half were already done. Our resolution is taking root or hold on the earth then, as seeds first send a shoot downward, which is fed by their own albumen, ere they send one upwards to the light.--Thoreau.

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

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

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

~Dependence.~--The beautiful must ever rest in the arms of the sublime. The gentle needs 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.

Thou shalt know by experience how salt the savor is of other's bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.--Dante.

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. Who will not work, neither shall he eat. So God has ordered that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other and bear each other's burdens.--G. A. Sala.

We are never without a pilot. When we know not how to steer, and dare not hoist a sail, we can drift. The current knows the way, though we do not. The ship of heaven guides itself, and will not accept a wooden rudder.--Emerson.

~Desire.~--It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it.--Franklin.

Lack of desire is the greatest riches.--Seneca.

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

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

The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.--Coleridge.

Desires are the pulse of the soul.--Manton.

~Despair.~--Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.--Fielding.

Leaden-eyed despair.--Keats.

In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.--De Witt Talmage.

He that despairs limits infinite power to finite apprehensions.--South.

It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his helper is omnipotent.--Jeremy Taylor.

He that despairs measures Providence by his own little contracted model.--South.

Juliet was a fool to kill herself, for in three months she'd have married again, and been glad to be quit of Romeo.--Charles Buxton.