Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-08-15
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NOTHING prevents person rom being natu-
raj and easy, 50 much Us an extremc anxiety TO
appear so.
WHAT would orr day be without its morning
and evenings twilight? y fierce and burning
eye without lid.
Why does no man confess his vices? 1t is
because he IS yet iii them. 1t is for u lo4kiag
man TO tell his dreams.
\ mind might ponder its thoughts for yes
and not gain as much seIl-knowedge as the
passion OF love shall teach it in one dav.
THERE are truths which some men desyi,c
because they have not examined them, and
which they will not examine because they dc.
SpiSe them.
Wounds healed when the body is in health,
sometimes break out a!rcSh i'll sickness: but
evil passions and proPensities, that seem cured
IN sickness, often break out alresh in health
Is literature and in love we generally begin
IN bad taste. BY experience and observation
we become sensible to the charms OF the simple
AMI the unaffected both in bellies and in bellies.
ie:he8.
Ny experience makes me an enemy alike TO
premature marriage and distant engagements,
The first adds to our individual cares the re-
spohSiblllty for the beloved and helpless pledges
OF our affections, and the last are liable to the
most cruel Ppo!Htments.-.Si ". .Scott.
If men could lind the Gabled fountain that is
said to restore youth and health and beauty,
with what cagcrneSs they would rush 10 drink
its waters Yet with scarcely less eagcrncss do
they now rush to drink Of waters tnat bring
upon them premature cid age and disease, and
loathsome uglineSs.
ExERGY.-The longer live, the more certain
am that the great difference between men is
energy-invinciblc determination-an honest
purpose once liked and then death or victory
inns quality will ito anything that can DC done
III the world; and no talents, no circumstances.
no opportunity, will make one man without it.
-BeiMOHt.
ExPEHlENcE-Thcrci IS pretty German story
OF blind man, who, even under a misfortune.
was happy-hapry in a wife he passionateIy
loved; her voice was sweet and low, and he gave
her credit for that beauty which (nad he been
Painter) was the object ofhiS idolatry a phy-
scian came, and, curing the disease, restored
the husband TO sight, which he chiefly valued
as 1t would enable him to gaze on the lovely
features OF his wife. Tie looks, and sees a face
hidcous in ugliness! He is restored to sight,
but his happiness is over Is not this our his
tory? Oar cruel physician is Experience.
SHELLEY was one of the most sensitive of hu
man beings; he had horror of taking life. and
looked upon 1t as crime lie read poetry with
great emphasis and solemnity; ore evening he
read aloud To Il translation of one of Gcrthe's
poems, and at this day think hear him. In
music he seemed to delight, as a medium Of as
sociation; the tunes which had been :lyurilcs in
boyhood charmed him. There was one. which
he played several times the piano with one
hand, which seemed to absorb him: it was an
exceedingly simple air, which, understand, his
earliest love (Harret Grove was won't to pIay
for him. He soon left us, and never saw him
afterwards; but can never forget him. IL was
his last visit to Field Place. He was an amia-
bic, gentle being