The dispute about religion and the practice of 45 it seldom go together. Young.
The disputes of two of equal strength and fortune are worthy of attention; but not of two, the one great, the other humble. Hitopadesa.
The dissection of a sentence is as bad a way to the understanding of it, as the dissection of a beast to the biography of it. Ruskin.
The distances of nations are measured, not by seas, but by ignorances; and their divisions determined, not by dialects, but by enmities. Ruskin.
The distant landscape draws not nigh / For all our gazing. Keble.
The distant sounds of music, that catch new 50 sweetness as they vibrate through the long-drawn valley, are not more pleasing to the ear than the tidings of a far-distant friend. Goldsmith.
The distinction between man and nature is, that man is a being becoming, and nature a being become. Rückert.
The distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present. Ruskin.
The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price and be bought for it. Ruskin.
The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet, which pervades all their actions and habits. Bulwer Lytton.