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Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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=Dominion.=

Here we may reign secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
576
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. i., Line 261.


=Doom.=

What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?
577
SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.


=Doubt.=

Modest doubt is call'd
The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches
To the bottom of the worst.
578
SHAKS.: _Troil. and Cress.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win,
By fearing to attempt.
579
SHAKS.: _M. for M.,_ Act i., Sc. 5.
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