The Yazoo Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1840-1842, 1842-05-06

tna' eACeHeht monthly Magazine The
Knickerbocker-the following beautiful pes.
sages. selected from the writings Of cele.
brated French author:-
Passages from Jean Paul.
Nothing so moves man as the look of par.
6on' Our weaknesses are not purchased too
dear oy the hour of their forgiveness, and
the anger who feels no resentment must en-.
Wy the man who Overcomes it. When thou
torgvest, the man who wounds thv heart Ia
like the sea-worm that perforates the oyster.
shell, which closes up the wound with pearls.
The Joy of sensitive men is modest. Thew
show their wounds more readily than their
raptures, because they do not think both are
deserved, or they show both from behind the
veil of a tear.
When man remains modest not by praise
but Oy censure, then he is truly modest.
Begin the cultivation of thy heart, not
with the improvement of thy noble propen.
sites, but with the bridling of thy perVersO
inclinations. When once the weeds are
withered or plucked up, then will the noble
flower raise its head and grow luxuriantly.
One learns silence best among those who
have none, and talkativeness best among
those who are silent.
In our age the DEGREES of stOicism and the
increase of egOtiem are about equal. The
stole covers his treasures and buds with ice.
the other is ice itself. So in physics; the
mountains decrease while the glaciers in
crease.
When one-dOAs not hold still at the sting
OF bee or OF fortune, the sting tears out and
remains behind.
Sorrowful Earth, which three or four great
men can make better or desolate! Thou art
real theatre. In the foreground are sever.
| al fighting actors and linen tents, while the
painted soldiers and tents crowd the back
ground.
States like diamonds when they have de-.
fects are divided into smaller; and men in
great states and bees in great hives lose their
courage and vigor, if they afix small lands
to other small lands, like one COlOny-hivs to
another.
Man thinks his own affection is that of hu.
manity, as bees estimate the weather By the
! dryness of their hive, and although the sun
shines, do not venture out for fear Of rain.
To man as to books there are before and
behind two white empty covers-childhood
and old age.
Memory is the only paradise from which
we cannot be expelled. Even our first pa.
rents were not banished thence.
Virtue itself gives no consolation when
thou hast lost friend and the noble heart
that friendship has pierced bleeds MORALLY.
and all the balm of love cannot staunch it.
If thou hast completely separated from a
friend, give him-not only out of philanthro.
/ htrf kSNch nlla
ed friendship-nO token, no leaf, and if it be
possible, not moment of thy presence be-
cause the mementOs of former attachment
will but uselessly revive the pains of the
breach. Man bears much easier the cold
presence of an alienated lover than that Of
an alienated friend; for lover can easily be
replaced by others, but friend never.
One seldom knows those who are happiest.
The gentle zephyr of purest joy moves no
metallic anemoscope, nor announces it,
noiseless flight from echoing towers.
"Would that were the only greatness up.
on earth which is innocent of evil!" we Of.
3 ten exclaim but the only man of this STAMP
was long since crucifed; and still we, self.
fatterers, give the name of greatness to prin-
ces and geniuses!
A slight affection makes US beside our.
selves; great one restores us. A bell with
slight crack sounds dead; but when the
, crack is wider it sounds clear again.
: Every friend is at the same time a sun and
! asun-fower; he attracts and he follows.
Sin and the hedgehog are both born with,
, out thorns; but we all know how they sting
after birth. The most wretched man is he
: who feels regret before the deed, and com,
mits a sin armed with teeth at the birth
: whose bite shall deepen to the wounds 0l
: conscience's addsr-fangs.
, To look out of window il q city gives
one humor for the epic; in village only
for the satire or the idyl.
The griefs of welded love unreciprocated
! and the griefs of divorce, remind US Of the
/ teeth which pain US when they come and go
Fl Oh how immoVeabe the bow Of peace
2 spans the furious storm of the waterfall! 81
5 God stands in the heavens, and the stream
] of time leaps and plunges, and above ell il
> pillows hovers the bow of His peace.