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 160 DARING DARKNESS

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Time flies, Death urges, knells call, Heaven invites, Hell threatens. Young—Night Thoughts. Night II. L. 291. DARING (See also {{sc|Bravery, Courage)

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = A decent boldness ever meets with friends. | author = Homer | work = Odyssey | note = {{sc|Pope}}'s trans. Bk. 7. L. 67. | topic = | page = 160 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared. | author = Homer | work = Odyssey | note = {{sc|Pope}}'s trans. Bk. II. L. 312. | topic = | page = 160 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And what they dare to dream of, dare to do. | author = Lowell | work = Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration. July 21, 1865. St. 3. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 160 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Who dares this pair of boots displace, Must meet Bombastes face to face. William B. Rhodes—Bombastes Furioso. Act I. Sc. 4. Wer nichts waget der darf nichts hoffen. Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. Schiller—Don Carlos. Same idea in Theocritus. XV. 61. Plautus—Asia. I. 3. 65. And dar'st thou then To beard the lion in his den, The Douglas in his hall? Scott—Marmion—Canto VI. St. 14. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 160 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I dare do all that may become a man: Who dares do more, is none. Macbeth. Act I. Sc. 7. L. 47. What man dare, I dare: Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger, Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble. Macbeth. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 99 Nemo timendo ad summum pervenit locum. No one reaches a high position without daring. Syrus—Maxims. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 160 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Audendum est; fortes adjuvat ipsa Venus. Dare to act! Even Venus aids the bold. , Ttbullus—Carmina. I. 2. 16. DARKNESS Dark as pitch. Bunyan—Pilgrim's Progress. Pt. I. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 160 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave, The Moon, their Mistress, had expired before; The winds were withered in the stagnant air, And the clouds perish'd; darkness had no need Of aid from them—she was the Universe. | author = Byron | work = Darkness. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 160 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Darkness which may be felt. Exodus. X. 21. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 160 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking. | author = Longfellow | work = Evangeline. Pt. II. V. L. 108. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 160 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Lo! darkness bends down like a mother of grief On the limitless plain, and the fall of her hair It has mantled a world. Joaquin Miller—From Sea to Sea. St. 4. Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible. | author = Milton | work = Paradise Lost. | place = Bk. I. L. 62. Brief as the lightnirg in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man had power to say, Behold! The jaws of darkness do devour it up. Midsummer Night's Dream. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 144. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 160 }}