385 GRAY: _The Bard,_ Pt. i., St. 1.

=Conscience.=

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard their currents torn awry, And lose the name of action.

386 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

O conscience, into what abyss of fears And horrors hast thou driven me; out of which I find no way, from deep to deeper plung'd!

387 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. x., Line 842.

But, at sixteen, the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil.

388 BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto i., St. 167.

=Consideration.=

Consideration like an angel came, And whipp'd the offending Adam out of him.

389 SHAKS.: _Henry V.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

=Consistency.=

Gineral C. is a dreffle smart man; He's ben on all sides thet give places or pelf; But consistency still wuz a part of his plan,-- He's ben true to _one_ party, an' thet is himself.

390 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Biglow Papers,_ No. ii.

=Consolation.=

This grief is crowned with consolation.

391 SHAKS.: _Ant. and Cleo.,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas'd; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain; And, with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuff'd bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart?

392 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act v., Sc. 3.

=Conspiracy.=

Conspiracies no sooner should be formed Than executed.

393 ADDISON: _Cato,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Constancy.=

I am constant as the northern star, Of whose true-fix'd, and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament.

394 SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms above.

395 COLERIDGE: _Christabel,_ Pt. ii.

=Consummation.=

To die: to sleep: No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to,--'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd.

396 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

=Contemplation.=

For contemplation he and valor form'd, For softness she and sweet attractive grace.

397 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. iv., Line 297.

=Contempt.=

From no one vice exempt, And most contemptible to shun contempt.

398 POPE: _Moral Essays,_ Epis. i., Line 194.

=Contention.=

Sons and brothers at a strife!

What is your quarrel? how began it first?

--No quarrel, but a slight contention.

399 SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Contentment.=

He that commends me to mine own content, Commends me to the thing I cannot get.

400 SHAKS.: _Com. of Errors,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

This is the charm, by sages often told, Converting all it touches into gold: Content can soothe, where'er by fortune placed, Can rear a garden in the desert waste.

401 HENRY KIRKE WHITE: _Clifton Grove,_ Line 139.

=Contradiction.=

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

402 POPE: _Moral Essays,_ Epis. ii., Line 270.

=Controversy.=

Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both.

403 COWPER: _Task,_ Bk. iii., Line 161.

=Conversation.=