Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-04-21
A Readers Notes.

TALKING prevents doing. Silence is
the great Observation-Disclosures
HELPS. ..I ......-ft
THE subject needs to be considered in
all weathers of the soul, for it is very
large.-ARTHUR HELPS.
THE origin of parvenu is forgotten if
he remembers it, remembered if he for
gets.- ConceitS and CapriceS. 81. '''+
THERE are doubtless as many good
people in towns as there are in the
country.-MIss MULocH: Fair Fronce.
LEssING, when he was librarian at
Wolfenbuttel, prepared to start n re-
view which should only notice forgotten
boclxs.-MAx MULLER: Chips.
The wise man acquires with each ac-
cess of learning an increase, at least, Of
one special sort of knowledge, that,
namely, Of his own ignorance.--BLACK-
LEY: Word Gossip. .9 9..-a
THE chiefest and sublimest end Of mu-
sic is the graceful return of our thanks
to the gods, and the next is to purify
and bring our minds to sober and
harmonious temper.--PLUTARCHs Nor
ais. ...... . .lH.v
OUR men of art, contemning its an
cient majesty, instead of that manly,
grave, heaven born music, so acceptable
to the gods, have brought into the thea
ter sort of effeminate musical tat Ting,
mere sound, without substance. --+PLU-
TARCH: Morals. .... ...... .5..rf
IF the works of the great poets teach
anything, it is to hold mere invention
somewhat cheap. 1t is not the finding
of thing, but the making something
out of il after it is found, that is of con-
sequence.-LowELL: My Study Win-
doaDS. .tt. .,a. Uip
WHAT strange, desperate notion it
is of men, when they have erred, that
things are at their worst-that nothing
can be done to rescue them whereas
Judas might have done something bet
ter than hang himself.-ARTHURH HELPS:
Companions Of My Solitude. gsa us
TO contrast the size of the oak with
that of the parent acorn, as if the poor
seed had paid all costs from its slender
strong box, may serve for child's won
der; but the real miracle lies in that
divine league which bound all theforces
of nature to the service of the tiny germ
in fulfilling it's destiny.-LowELL My
Study WindowS. ,''.'
To dig in the mellow soil--to dig mod
erately, for all pleasure should be taken
sparingly-is a great thing One gets
strength out of the ground as often as
one really touches it with hoe. There
is life in the ground it goes into seeds,
and it also, when it is stirred up, goes
into the man who stirs it.--WARREN
My Summer IN Garden. ......
ALL really great and honest men may
be said to live three lives there is one
life which is seen and accepted by the
world at large, a mans outward life ;
there is a second life which is seen bya
mans most intimate friends, his house
hold life; and there is third life, seen
only by the man himself and by Him
who searcheth the heart, which may be
called the inner or heavenly life.--MAx
MULLER; Chips. .., ...-f.y y
VINO can say that OF her weeds, which
we despise, may not be the favorite food
of some remote people or tribe. We
ought to abate our conceit. 1t is posi-
BILE that we destroy in our gardens that
which is really of most value in some
other place. Perhaps, in like manner,
our faults and vices are virtues in some
remote planet. / cannot see, however,
that this thought is of the slightest
value to us here, any more than weeds
are.-WARREN My Summer in a Gar
den. 4..f...f
AGAIN and again nations have seen
their noblest descend into the grave,
and have thought it enough to garland |
the tombstone when they had not f
crowned the brow, and to pay the honor
to the ashes which they denied to the
spirit. Let it not displease them that
are bidden, amidst the tumult and the
dazzle of their busy life, to listen for the
few voices and watch for the few lamps
which God has toned and lighted to
charm and to guide them that they may
not learn their sweetness by their 81
lence, nor their lighs by their decry.-
RUsKIN: Modern Painters. .. ,.a