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.