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{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = You must take the will for the deed. Swot—Polite Conversation. Dialogue II. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Cebber)

DELAY

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Delay always heeds danger. | author = Cervantes | work = Don Quixote. | place = Bk. IV. Ch. III. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Henry VI.)

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = II fornito Sempre con danno l'attender sofferse. It is always those who are ready who suffer in delays. Dante—Inferno. XXVIII. 98. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Lucan}}) | topic = | page = }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem, Non ponebat enim rumores ante salutem. One man by delay restored the state, for he preferred the public safety to idle report. Ennius—Quoted by Cicero. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 187 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = With sweet, reluctant, amorous delay. | author = Homer | work = Odyssey. | place = Bk. I. 1 | note = {{sc|Pope}}'s trans. | topic = | page = 187 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Nulla unquam de morte cunctatio longa est. When a man's life is at stake no delay is too long. Juvenal—Satires. VI. 221. | note = | topic = | page = 187 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Do not delay, Do not delay: the golden moments fly! | author = Longfellow | work = Masque of Pandora. Pt. VII. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 187 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Ah! nothing is too late Till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate. | author = Longfellow | work = Morituri Salutamus. St. 24. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 187 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Tolle moras—semper nocuit differre paratis. Away with delay—it always injures those who are prepared. Lucan—Pharsalia. I. 281. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Dante)

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Longa mora est nobis omnis, quae gaudia differt. Every delay that postpones our joys, is long. Ovid—Heroides. XLX.. 3. | note = | topic = | page = 187 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Tardo amico nihil est quidquam iniquius. Nothing is more annoying than a tardy friend. Plautus—Panulus. III. 1. 1. | note = | topic = | page = 187 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Quod ratio nequiit, sspe sanavit mora. What reason could not avoid, has often been cured by delay. Seneca—Agamemnon. CXXX. | note = | topic = | page = 187 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Omnis nimium longa properanti mora est. Every delay is too long to one who is in a hurry. Seneca—Agamemnon. CCCCXXVI. | note = | topic = | page = 187 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Maximum remedium est irse mora. Delay is the greatest remedy for anger. Seneca—Delra. II. 28. (Same in Bk. Ill, with "dilatio" for "mora.")

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Delays have dangerous ends. Henry VI. Pt. I. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 33. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Cervantes)

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary. Richard III. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 53. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 187 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Pelle moras; brevis est magni fortuna favoris. Away with delay; the chance of great fortune is short-lived. Silius Italicus—Punica. IV. 734. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 187 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Late, late, so late! but we can enter still. Too late, too late! ye cannot enter now. | author = Tennyson | work = Idylls of the King. Guinevere. L. 169. | note = | topic = | page = 187 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = And Mecca saddens at the long delay. Thomson—The Seasons. Summer. L. 979. | note = | topic = | page = 187 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Like St. George, always in his saddle, never on his way. Proverb quoted in Clement Walker's History of Independency. The Mysterie of the Two Juntos.

DELFT

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = What land is this? Yon pretty town Is Delft, with all its wares displayed: The pride, the market-place, the crown And centre of the Potter's trade. | author = Longfellow | work = Keramos. L. 66.

DELIGHT

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others. Burke—The Sublime and Beautiful. Pt. I. Sec. 14. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 187 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Man delights not me: no, nor woman neither, though, by your smiling, you seem to say so. Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 321. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 187 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Why, all delights arc vain; and that most vain, hich with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain. Love's Labour's Lost. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 72. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 187 }}