St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1858-01-14

The present is bright speck be-
tween the darkness of the future and
the twilight of the past.
Keep your temper in disputes. The
cool hammer fashions the rcd hot iron
to any shape needed.
The ground of almost all our false
reasoning is, that we seldom look any
further than Oh one side of the ques
ton.
! \ weak mind sinks alike undo
prosperity and under advcrsity. !
strong and deep mind has two highes
tides-whcn the moon is at the full
and when there is no moon.
Human affections are the leaves
the foliage of our bcing-they catch
every breath and in the burden and
heat of the day they make music and
motion in sultry world Stripped OF
that foliage how unsightly is human
nature.
HoME.-The world is for the work.
ing hour, but home is the place of
refuge. We come to it when we are
weary or weak !; our rcfreshmcnt is
there, our rest is there, we reflect
there, we recover from sickness there
and when we die in peace, we die
there.
Disasters of life, says late writer
like convulsions of the earth, lay bare
the primary strata of human nature
they expose to us elements we might
forget, or suppose to be transmitted
by the alchemy of civilization. In
this respect they are like those geo.
logical cxpositions, useful lessons and
mcmcntocs to the law.makcr.
They who read about everything
are thought to understand everything
too, but it is not always So Reading
furnishes the mind only with the ma.
terials of knowledge it is thinking
that makes what we read ours. We
arc of the ruminating kind, and it is
not enough to cram ourselves with a
great load of collections-we must
chew them over again Chonning
A celebrated divine, who was re-
markable in the first period of his min
istry for boistcrous mode of preach
ing, suddenly adopted a mild and dis
passionate style. One of his brctlIe.
rem inquired what induced him to
make change? lie was answered,
when was young | thought it was
the thunder that killed the people
but when grew wiser | discovered
that it was the lightning so l deter
mined to thunder less and tighten
more"
From the lips of woman the infant
hears the first accents of affection, and
receives the first lesson of tenderness
and love. For the appreciation of wo
man the youth will undertake the bold
est enterprise, and brave every diff
Guilty Of study, danger, and ever
death itself. To the happiness of wo
man the man of mature years will de
vote the best energies of his mind and
body and from the soothing and af
fectionatc regard of woman, the mar
who is become venerable in years, de
rivcs his chief consolation in litc's de
cline.
Oh, man /! fear not for thy affections
and feel no dread lest time should ef
face them. There is neither to-day mol
yesterday in the powerful echoes o.
the mcmery there is only always
He who no longer feels, has never
felt. There are two memories, thu
memory of the senses, which wears
out with the senses, and in which per
ishable things decay and the memo
ry of the soul, for which time does no
exist, and which lives over, at thu
same instant, every moment of it!
past existence. Fear not, We who love
Time has power over hours-non,
over the soul.
Springs are little things, but the,
are sources of large streams helm
is little thing, but it governs tn
course of large ship; bride bit i
a little thing, but it will guide pow
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