=Dilettantism, hypothesis, speculation, a kind of amateur-search for truth, toying and coquetting with truth; this is the sorest sin, the root of all imaginable sins.= _Carlyle._
=Dilexi justiciam et odi iniquitatem, propterea morior in exilio=--I have loved justice and hated injustice, therefore die I an exile. _Gregory VII. on his death-bed._
=Diligence increases the fruits of labour.= _Hesiod._
=Diligence is the mother of good fortune.= _Cervantes._ 25
=Diligentia, qua una virtute omnes virtutes reliquæ continentur=--Diligence, the one virtue that embraces in it all the rest. _Cic._
=Diligent, that includes all virtues in it a student can have.= _Carlyle, to the Students of Edinburgh University._
=Diligent working makes an expert workman.= _Dan. Pr._
=Diligitur nemo, nisi cui fortuna secunda est=--Only he is loved who is the favourite of fortune. _Ovid._
=Dimidium facti, qui cœpit, habet=--He who has 30 begun has half done. _Hor._
=Ding (knock) down the nests, and the rooks will flee awa.= _Sc. Pr., used to justify the demolition of the religious houses at the Reformation._
=Dinna curse him, sir; I have heard a good man say that a curse was like a stone flung up to the heavens, and maist like to return on his head that sent it.= _Scott._
=Dinna gut your fish till you get them.= _Sc. Pr._
=Dinna scald your ain mou' wi ither folk's kail= 35 =(broth).= _Sc. Pr._
=Di nos quasi pilas homines habent=--The gods treat us mortals like so many balls to play with. _Plaut._
=Diogenes has well said that the only way to preserve one's liberty was being always ready to die without pain.= _Goethe._
=Dios es el que sana, y el médico lleva la plata=--Though God cures the patient, the doctor pockets the fee. _Sp. Pr._
=Dios me dé contienda con quien me entienda=--God grant me to argue with such as understand me. _Sp. Pr._
=Di picciol uomo spesso grand' ombra=--A little 40 man often casts a long shadow. _It. Pr._
=Dira necessitas=--Cruel necessity. _Hor._
=Dirt is not dirt, but only something in the wrong place.= _Palmerston._
=Diruit, ædificat, mutat quadrata rotundis=--He pulls down, he builds up, he changes square into round. _Hor._
=Dir war das Unglück eine strenge Schule=--Misfortune 45 was for thee a hard school. _Schiller._