The doom of the old has long been pronounced 15 and irrevocable; the old has passed away; but, alas! the new appears not in its stead; the time is still in pangs of travail with the new. Man has walked by the light of conflagrations, and amid the sound of falling cities; and now there is darkness, and long watching till it be morning. Carlyle in 1831.
The door must either be shut or it must be open. I must either be natural or unnatural. Goldsmith.
The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot. Bible.
The dread of censure is the death of genius. Simms.
The dread of something after death, / The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn / No traveller returns, puzzles the will; / And makes us rather bear those ills we have / Than fly to others that we know not of. Ham., iii. 1.
The dreamer is a madman quiescent, the 20 madman is a dreamer in action. F. H. Hedge.
The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness. Joubert.
The dress of words, / Like to the Roman girl's enticing garb, / Should let the play of limb be seen through it, / And the round rising form. Bailey.
The drunkard forfeits man, and doth divest / All worldly right, save what he hath by beast. George Herbert.
The dry light is ever the best. Heraclitus.