The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-04-06
A READERS NOTE..
Btauties OF Thought and Word From
New and old Books.

B,auties OF Thought and Word From
New and old Books.
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.
One great art of managing with small
anxietips, is to cease thinking about them
Just at that point when thought be-
comes morbid.--ARTHUR HELPS: Com
panions of My Solitude.
Lessing, when he was Librarian at
Wolfenuttel, proposed to start review
which should only notice forgotten books.
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.-BLAoK-
LEY: Word Gossip.
There are doubtless as many good
people in towns as there are in the coun-
try, only, perhaps, the good would be
better still if they lived in the country.
Miss MULocH Fair France.
The chiefest and sublimest end of
music is the graceful return of our thanks
to the gods, and the next is to purify
and bring our minds to sober and har-
monious emper.-PLUTARCH: Morals.
Our men of Art, contemning its ancient
majesty, instead of that manly, grave,
heavenborn music, SO acceptable to the
gods, have brought into the theatre a
sort OF efeminate musical tattling, mere
sound without substance. !:
Morals.
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 g
out of it after it is found, that is of con-
sequence.-LowELL: My Study Windows.
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 better than
hang himself-ARTHUR HELPS: Com
panions Of My Solitude.
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 q child's won
der; but the real miracle lies in that di-
vine league which bound all the forces
of nature to the service of the tiny germ
in fulfilling its destiny.-LowELL: My
Study Windows.
To dig in the mellow soil-to dig
moderately, for all pleasure should be
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gets strength out of the ground as often
There is life in the ground; it goes into
the seeds, and it also, when stirred up
goes into the man who stirs it.-WAE-
REN: Ny Summer in a Garden.
Again and again nations have seer
their noblest descend into the grave, and
have thought it enough to garland the
tombstone when they had not crowned
the brow, and to pay the honor to the
ashes which they had denied to the
spirit. Let it not displease them that
they are hidden, amidst the tumult and
the dazzle of their busy life, to listen fol
the few voices and watch for the few
lamps which God has toned and Lighted
to charm and to guide them, that they
silence, nor their light. by their decay
RUsKIN Modern Painters.
By the time a man gets to be eighty
he learns that he is compassed by
limitations, and tnat there has been ,
natural boundary set to his individua
powers. As he goes on in life, he Begin
to doubt his ability to destroy all evi
and to reform all abuses, and to suspec
that there will be much left to do afte
he is done. stepped into my gardel
in the spring, not doubling that l shoulC
be easily master of the weeds. 1 hav
simply learned that an institution
which is at least thousand years old
and 1 believe six millions, is not to b
put down in one season.-WARREN
My Summer in Garden.
Just so many misdirected letter
every year and no morel Would it wer
as easy to reckon up the number of mel
ON whose backs fate has written tn
wrong address, so that they arrive b.
mistake in Congress and other place
where they do not belong! May no
these wanderers of whom l speak hav
been sent into the world without IN,
proper address at all And if wise
social arrangement should furnish us wit
something of the sort, fancy (horribl
thought how many q workingman
friend Ia kind of industry in which tn
labor is light and the wages heavy
would be sent thither because not calle,
for in the office where he at present lies
LOWELL: Ny Study WindO~s.
The more we examine the mechan
ism of thought the more we shall see tn
automatic unconscious action of tn
mind enters largely into all its processes
Our definite ideas are stepping-stones
how we get from one to the other, W
do not know; something carries us W
do not take the step. A creating an
informing spirit which is with us, an
not of us, is recognized in real and i
storied life. 1t is the Zeus that kindle
the rage of Achilles; it is the Muse {
Homer it is the Damon of Socrates;
is the inspiration Of the seer; it is th
mocking devil that whispers to Margart
as she kneels at the altar and the hot
goblin that cried, "Sell him, sell him
in the ear of John Bunyan; it shape
the forms that filled the soul of Micha
Angelo when he saw the figure of IL
great Lawgiver in the yet unhewn ma
, BILE, and the dome of the worlds yet III
built basiGca against the blank horizon
it comes to the least of us as voice thi
will be heard it tells us what we mu
. believe; it frames our sentences it len,
, a sudden CLEAN of sense or eloquence
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