The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-08-02
For the Rev Orleans sunday CrsscentI
ExCEKPTs FROM MY NOTE BOOK.
FOR THE THOUGHTFUL READERS OF THE CRESCENT
" Satire's the same HIGH seasoned sharp and rough
Kind bellies and beaux, hope your pepper proof.

FUN THOUGHTFUL READERS OF THE CHESCENT.
Sstire's the same, high seasoned sharp ndrough.
Kind bellies and beaux, hope your pepper proof"
Read not books alone, but men, and chiefly
learn to read myself"
Neither the good nor the evil that men do is
inferred with their lives, but lives after them.
Netting ever touched the heart Of q reader that
did not come from the heart of the writer.
The men who now decline to take part in poll
tics are very aptly described in the following lines
by Dryden, and should take the advice given in
the first and second lines:a ,
"Now, since the weight hangs all on one side,
brother, asL .l--. lasa
You trimmers should, to poise it, hang on tother
Damned Deuters, in their middle way of steering /,
Are neither fish nor flesh, nor good red herring.
Not Wings nor Tories they, nor this, nor that
Nor birds, nor beasts, but just q kind of bat;
twilight animal, true to neither cause,
With Tory wings, but Whiggish teeth and claws"
The opening chapter of life's romance is gen.
orally very common-place. How often do the
most trivial acfs lead to the great events of our
life! The whim of moment, the thought sss
word, turn the whole current of our life, aud
''trihes light as air" change into tragedy what
might else have proved but pleasant drama.
You start out for walk, social visit, and you
meet what? Your destiny.
He is not worthy Of the honey comb that shuns
the hive because the bees have stings.
A wise man changes his mind. fool never.
A man may be great by chance, but never wise
nor good without taking pains for It.
The Creator is not only great chemist, who
knows how to extract antidotes from every poison,
but also wonderful alchemist, who, in the earthly
crucible Of human sorrow, extracts pure ore from
the dross of our hearts and there is not tear
that we shed but what, passed through the alem-
bic of His mercy, flows on before ne into the
waters of eternal life.
The greatest gluttons are those who feed upon
SANDER.
1.-The sunshine of life is made up of very little
beams, that are bright all the time"
Hell is paved with good intentions that have
come to nought, and rooted with lost opportuni'
ties.
''If evils come not, then our fears were vain,
And if they do, fear but augments the PAIN"
Keep low sail at the commencement of life
you may rise with honor. but you cannot recede
without shame.
80 The keen spirit
Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought
Start into instant action, and at once,
Plans and performs, resolves and executes"
"If a straw can be made an instrument of hap
pness he is a wise man who doth not despise it,
wonder if the writer of that line had ever taken
an old Virginia mint julep through strawD
A taste for good reading will always carry You
into the best possible company. and enable you to
converse with men who will instruct you by their
wisdom, and charm you Dy ther- VIII; VINO Will
soothe you when fretted, counsel you when per-
picked, and sympathize with you at all times.
He who hath not good memory should never
take upon him the trade Of lying. -
4" If wisdom's ways you wisely seek
Five things observe with ease
OF whom you speak, to whom you speak,
And how, aud when, and where"
Some hearts. ike evening primroses, open most
beautifully in the evening of life.
rba loht NJ friandahin ia liKa 4ha Ifoht ~
phosphorus, seen plainly only when all around is
dark. ELIZABETH.