Nebraska advertiser., 1857-10-01
Food for Thinkers.
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1t is poor Wit that jests at power

a1He pFtue VI NOmdui HdIuLdI W ASA' /
never sleeps till modesty is gone.
Liberality and generosity Of feeling
are the surest tests of a gentleman.
Strain the bow, and the arrow
swerves; such is the case with the
mind. fs
Riches consist in that which suf-
feeth, and not in that which is superffu-
ous.
No. man was ever infected by fat
terry, who did not love and encourage
the offering.
We seek for riches and do not find
them; We do not seek for death but,
alas! he comes. 4el aA.
Speak with calmness on all occa-
sions, especially in circumstances
which tend to irritate.
Those talk most who think least; as
frogs cease their quacking when per-
son brings a light to the water side.
The diver for pearls plunges into
the depths Of the sea, and the man who
aspires to glory passes his nights in
vigils.
As the storm which bruises the flow
er nourishes the tree, so absence, which
starves weak affection, strengthens
a strong one.
Good friends should not be easily
forgotten, nor used as suits of appar-
el, which, when We have worn them
threadbare, we cast off, and call for
new. Ill us- ea-
The web Of our life is mingled
yarn. Our virtues would be proud, if
our faults whipped them not; and our
crimes would despair if.nOt redeemed
4 by our nature. str
Health comes of itself; but we are
at great pains to get our Diseases
Health comes from a simple life of ma
ture; diseases from the artificial life
of nature. ai1up- i2.a4 a.t.la'
I knowledge cannot be acquired with
out pains and applications 1t is trOub-
lesome, and like deep digging for pure
waters; but when once you come to
the spring, they rise up and meet you,
There is perhaps no pang SO acute.
no sentiment SO humiliating to the
heart Of woman, as the consciousness
; Of awakening distrust, when she most
I deserved to have inspired confidence
Drunkenness is fattering devil, a
sweet poison, pleasant sin, which
y whosoeyer hath, hath not himself
, which whosoever doth commit, doth
t not commit sin, but he himself is Who'll
ly sin.
l look on sculpture as history. l Dc
! not think the Apollo and the Jove i'm
) possible in flesh and blood. Every
5 trait which the artist recorded in stone
. he had seen in life, and better than hi!
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) A vast deal of genial humor, say
r Mrs. Stowe, is conscientiously stran
? gled in religious people, which nigh
illuminate and warm the way of life
Wit and gaiety answer the same pur
pose that fire does in a damp hous
\ dispensing chills and drying u
r mould, and making all wholesome an
cheerful. -ei a.ua-
: Are we to break down the hedge
! flowers which perfume our paths P
Things are oftenest nothing in them
selves the thoughts we attach to ther
= alone give them value. Torectify in
J nocent mistakes, in order to recove
S some useless reality, is to belize thos
u learned men who will see nothing in
a plant but the chemical elements {
: : which it is composed. sg
|. The smallest pleasure derives fro
a rarity relish otherwise unknown
e Enjoyment is only what we feel to |
= such, and the luxurious man feels Il
longer; safety has lost him his app
tite, while priyatiOn preserves to Il
of other that first Of earthly blessings
ID the being easily made happy Oh!,th
at 1 could persuade every one of thi
it that so the rich might not abuse the
rs riches, and that the poor might ha
il, patience. # Happiness, is the rare
ed of blessings it is because the reee
ton af it is the rarcst of yirtuehaa +
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