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 Rev. James Wood

The dependant is timid. Gael. Pr. 5

The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope. Carlyle.

The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul. Bible.

The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar. Bible.

The desire of perfection is the worst disease that ever afflicted the human mind. Fontanes.

The desire of power in excess caused the 10 angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity there is no excess, neither can man or angel come in danger by it. Bacon.

The desire of the moth for the star, / Of the night for the morrow, / The devotion to something afar / From the sphere of our sorrow. Shelley.

The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour. Bible.

The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinions of its young men under five-and-twenty. Goethe.

The destruction of the poor is their poverty. Bible.