Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1851-11-27

L GdCt IL liC evening Sldi vi IlC oOui; oo
virtue is its sun, and the two are never far
apart.
The inertness of the mind is often taken
for its peace.
He submits to be seen through micro
scope who suffers himself to be caught in a
passion.
True quietness of heart is got by resisting
our passions, not by obeying them.
Mans nature runs either to herbs or weeds;
let him seasonably water the one, and destroy
the other.
There are men, who by long consulting
only their own inclination, have forgotten
that others have claim to the same defer
ence.
Neither The evil nor the good that men DO
is ever inferred with their bones, but lives
after them.
Itnever was wise thing yet to make men
desperate, for one who hath no hope of good
hath no fear of evil.
He who defers lis charities till his death
is rather liberal of another mans goods than
of his own.
The poet who knows how to express and
paint the affections and passions of the soul,
will always be read with greater delight than
the most exact observer of inanimate nature.
He that never extends his view beyond the
praises or rewards of men viii be detected by
neglect and envy, or infatuated by honor and
applause.
Some people think that the heart can nev-
er be affected till it has undergone battery
Of exaggerated phrases; and they drive nails
into US by way of touching our feelings.
Nations in a state of war are,like individ-
uals in state of lntoxication; they frequent
ly contract debts when drunk, which they
are obliged TO pay when sober.
1t is often extremely difficult in the mixed
things of this world to act truly and kindly
too; but therein lies one of the great trials OF
man-that his sincerity should have kindness
in it, and his kindness truth.
Instruct your son well, or others viii in
struct him i'll. No child goes altogether un-
taught. Send him to the school of wisdom,
or he will 90 of himself to the rival academy,
kept by the lady with the cap and BELLS
There is always teaching going on of some
sort, just as in felds--yegetation is never
idle
Philosophy, like medicine, has abundance
of drugs, few good remedies, and scarcely any
specifics.
Perhaps the most acceptable kind of flatte-
! ry consists less in eulogizing mans actions
or talents, than in decrying those of his rival.
There are two classes of people that can
afford to be modest; those who posses a vast
amount Of knowledge, and those who have
but little.
The world is only rigid for pretty and COM
mon faults a rare audacity astonishes it a
splendid misfortune dsarms it.
Absence diminishes moderate passions, and
increases great ones, as the wind extinguish-
es taPers, and adds fury to fire.
Our Eencmies come nearer the truth in
their judgments of US than we do in our udg-
ments of ourselves.
What is called liberality is most often only
the vanity of giving, which we like better
than the thing we give.
Fanatacism, the daughter of ignorance and
mother of infdelity.
When goodwill goes gadding, he must not
be surprised if ill-will sometimes meets him
on the way.
We promise according to our hopes and
perform according to our fears.
Hypocrisy is the homage which vice rem
ders to virtue.
A refusal of praise is desire to be praised
twice.
Gravity is mystery of the body invented
to conceal the effects of the mind.
Public opinion is a jurisdiction, which the