Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1865-01-09

Shall answer Hymen's knock,
Wen classify tho specimens,
My love, as cradle Tocki
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Patience and cheertulness adorn the ruins
of fortunes as ivy does those of castles and
temples.
Fault finding does not require and does
not generally indicate high order of
alent.
Ladies will sooner pardon want of sense
than want of manners.
Women are wise on sudden, fools on
generalization.
"A good wife is the workmanship of a
good husband and Uiee versa.
There is one good wife in the country,
and every man thinks he hath her.
Those who have no settled occupation
themselves are most prone to find fault
with the work of others.
If some men had their limbs broken they
would be cripPles for life; their bones
would be too lazy to knit.
The moro we know the less we say. at
death man arrives at immense knoWl-
edge, and doesn't open his mouth.
Many persons, who pride themselves up.
on being skeptics, will believe anything,
provided it is impossible.
L NC OuIg lOFo III WHICH Qhu mas no
rival, is in the wonderful love he generally
has for himself
EgOtism is a mere burning of personal
Incense, in which the egotist is at once al
tar priest, censor, and divinity.
tourist who has been visiting Venice,
'"1'.Sa5 ~i'h more lively recollection of
the dollars goRo than Of the gonG0GGs.
Tue world has lost much of the romance
Ofancient times. The great god Pan is dead
and Pot reigus in his stead.
Some persons are not suspected of being
rhscals because they are known to be.
They arc not above suspicion but below it.
MAyIa will gets worshipped in manhood
which acts precisely on the same motive
for which an obstinate child gets whipped.
Break q woman's heart, and she will
smile and forgive you. Break joke upon
her face, and she declares war-war to the
scissors.
The teachers of girls schools are wrong
to require the writing of open letters
An unsealed letter is almost invariably
half untrue.
There is nothing that so awakens the
divinity within Us as lofty music. In the
lAbyrinths of the ear, as in those Of Egypt,
gods lie buried.
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brushes permanently, but the long endu-
rance of heavy burden, or an accumulation
of smaller ones.
The so called instinct of animals-this
ass which perciVes the angels presence
sooner than the prOphet-ought to be re-
garded as the greatest miracle of creation.
'Tis "a sad thing when men have neither
heart enough to speak we'll, nor judgement
enough to hold their tongues; this is the
foundation of all impertinence.
1t is not very hard to live or die for those
we love, but do you know the love re.
quircd to live Nth them? What amount
of II can stand before a conflict of naturesi
For every woman it is with the food q
the heart as with that of the body; it il
possible to exist on very small quantity
but that small quantity is an absolute ne.
cessity.
The difference in mems social ability
lies not so much in what they think, az
when they think il, whothSr thew bavt
the thought at the right moment or not
A man does not feel bit the stronger
Tor feeling rarely, aud he who resolutely
controls all expression Of feeling does more
than that he puts down the thing itself.
"Henry, you ought to be ashamed to
throw away bread like that. You NAV
want it, some day" "Well, mother, would
stand any better chance of getting Il
then, should eat it up noW1"
Some Frenchmau has said that nOrstorv
is the art of saying everything without
being put in the Bastile, in a country
where you are forbidden to say snythinc'n
1t you see half dozen faults in wo-
mau you may rest assured she has half a
dozen virtues to Counterbalancs them. We
dove your faulty, and fear you fauftless
women. When you see what is termed a
tHultless woman, dread her as Won WonI5
beautiful snake. The power of conceal
ing the defects which she must have ia. of
itself a serious vice.
Your old age is public good. uis IN.
deed. No child ever listened to yonr talk
without having a good done 1t that no
schooling could do. When you are walk.
Ing no one ever opens gate for Won To
pass through, and no one ever honors YOU
with any kind Of help, without being him
sell the better for what he does; for fell
him.
No man who is ever thoroughly asham.
ed of himself should be classed amonp
the irreclaimable- The real fool never
regrets the right thing or for the right
reason, and under no circumstances sees
himself as others see him.
Madame de Stael said, "If it were not
Ter my respect for human opinion. I
would not open my window to see the
bay Of Naples for the first time; while I
would so five hundred leagues to talk
win man of genius whom had not
seen.