The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-05-11
Gn4nte'!lIiatrter
WISDOM IN BROKEN DOSES.

From overland Monthly
Truth: liars purgatory.
Reason: human perplexlty.
Look up-God looks down.
The gracious toreseo gratuIttes'
Inshed tears are never wiped away
The little do not always sec the great
The swine arc many, and the pearls few
II the fruit Is bitter, the blossom wa'
foul
When you despair of good, beware OIL
evil.
preccpt: porcelain. Practice broken
china. ,
Any lie Is a success upon when zoo
smiles.
Justice 4 lmmutahle-but not human
Justice.
Riches are wings with which even aSse:
can fly.
who knows himself has occasion iol
When troubles move near. iriendi
move oil.
In familiar places there are no wonder
full things.
Rer@pectlon: going back to wash IT
dirty water.
Wholives for himself alone, lives for
mean fellow.
Seek no other wisdom but God, for HI
is all wisdom.
Happiness Is blind the wlsest are those
who suffer most.
Conceit: an ass who imagines himself
to be an elephant.
Look forward to thy grave, and thou
wilt walk soberly.
Gid big knave, and little honest men
will worship him.
Forgiveness: a kiss Of the lips to heal
stab at the heart.
Aim high; but not SO high as not to be
able to bit any thing.
Hope may bud under clouds, but bios
SONS only in sunshine.
There is more happiness at a distance
than ever comes near.
Let me be condemned innocent rather
than acquitted guilty.
Ahumble duty faithfully performed Is
sweet morsel forever.
In solitudeis self.knowledge; in society
IL knnw1ndua NJ OiharR
"No" Is q little word, with short
sound and long import.
The differences Of tho wise excuse the
pickering OF the ignorant
Who breaches is lmmaterisl-practic-
Ing Is what mends the road.
Truth Is the most dense, yet the most
transparent, ofall principles.
Ministers are nearer God than other
men are-Or nearer the devil.
The moral who loves Nature and walks
with her inhRIgeaty, sees God.
Those who shun society arc above it or
beneath lt-giants or pigmies.
Some great endeavors come 10 nothing!
some little ones come to much.
From friends We learn what We should
be- from enemies, what we arc.
Life Is succession Of uncertainties,
ending in one certainty-Death.
He who would know the heights Of Joy
must sound the depths Of sorrow.
One often meets with the walking dead
men-ghosts Of their former selves.
Truth is stranger than fiction" only
because men are strangers to Truth.
Dollars are greater than men. Tho
Msn who has no dollars has no men.
Sacrifice not the truth for friends:
friends are Tor time, truth Is forever.
To find wise men Is not difficult; the
fools are the exceedingly rare animals.
Il, as atheists affirm, Creation came by
chance, what sublime Chance it was.
Who falls twice. on the same spot 10
WeAkin his head as well as in his heels.
Fame is sometimes the voice of the
GODS, and sOmetimes tho cackling Of geese.
Human Constancy: two fools promising
to make straight journey over a crooked
road, =
One may sprawl, and regain his dig
nifty; but from erapltng there is no re-
COvey.
The difficulty Of determining what is
real and what is illusory is the great diff
fculy.
II Thy conscience smite thee once, 1t is
80 adnonitioH; If 1t smite thee twice, 1t is
condemnation.
Tospeak only in praise of humanity is
70 a4Iter ones self: to speak Ill only is to
SANDER humanity.
Mankind feed q vice with dollar,
SA'Ve virtue with cent, and cry, o, my
beloved is Virtue4
Those who bear many crosses without
Cfossness are stronger than Samson and
wiser than Solomon.
Worldly friendships arc like coffee
grounds: the oftener they are drawn upon
Ile weaker they grow.
Society winks at the wealthy knave
and tramples on the poor knave. Society
l'worthy Of oil praise
Who so sits down to the wholesale
praise OF any human effort gets up liar.
Perfection Is Gods alone.
The devil is an invention of man; sin is
an Invention Of man and wherever man
IS there arc his inventions,
Old age Is the verdict of life: il the old
sse Is seemly, the life has been virtuous
NunSeemly, 1t has been vicious.
Gold is but relative good. Yot man.
Nlnd exchange God, truth, and honor,
which are poNitire goods, for gold!
Man is an enigma, with God and HEAVIER
on one side and the Devil and He'll on the
other, continually goading him to selrso
luton.
10 the finest natures some hnse thread,