Maturin Ballou - Pearls of Thought

Doubt is hell in the human soul. — Gasparin.

Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul. — J. Petit Senn.

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. — Shakespeare.

The doubts of an honest man contain more moral truth than the profession of faith of people under a worldly yoke. — X. Doudan.

There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. — Tennyson.

Every body drags its shadow, and every mind its doubt. — Victor Hugo.

Dreams.– Children of night, of indigestion bred. — Churchill.

A world of the dead in the hues of life. — Mrs. Hemans.

The fickle pensioners of Morpheus' train. — Milton.

Dreams always go by contraries, my dear. — Samuel Lover.

We are somewhat more than ourselves in our sleeps, and the slumber of the body seems to be but the waking of the soul. It is the litigation of sense, but the liberty of reason; and our waking conceptions do not match the fancies of our sleeps. — Sir T. Browne.

The mockery of unquiet slumbers. — Shakespeare.

Like a dog, he hunts in dreams. — Tennyson.

Dress.– It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists. — Rousseau.

Duty.– Stern daughter of the voice of God. — Wordsworth.

Duty is a power which rises with us in the morning and goes to rest with us at night. It is coextensive with the action of our intelligence. It is the shadow which cleaves to us, go where we will, and which only leaves us when we leave the light of life. — Gladstone.

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man. — Bible.

The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life. — George Eliot.

Do the duty which lies nearest to thee. — Goethe.

Those who do it always would as soon think of being conceited of eating their dinner as of doing their duty. What honest boy would pride himself on not picking a pocket? A thief who was trying to reform would. — George MacDonald.

To what gulfs a single deviation from the track of human duties leads! — Byron.

The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and consists but of two points: his duty to God, which every man must feel; and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by. — Thomas Paine.

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