The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-12-25
GEMS OF THOUGHT.


GEMS OF THOUGHT.
No fool can be silent at II ast.-Solon
IMNopEsr words admit of no defence -
Pope.
NEXT to faith in God is faith in labor
Il Bovee.
MANS life is an appendix to his heart
-[South.
To live long,it is necessary to live slow.
ly- Cicero.
LOGIC works; metophysic contcm,
plates - [Goubert
INCIDENCE and stupidity are first cou
sins,--[ Rivarel.
Tue greatest pleasure of life is love-
Sir W. Temple
Love can hope where reason would
despair. - Iittleton,
INCONSISTENCY falls off ere it begins
Shakespeare.
INCIDENCE is kind ofcenripetal force.
= Shenstone.
The worst thing an old man can be is
Il lover 0tway.
WICKED is not much worse than indis.
Greet Dome.
LITERATURE is the thought of thinking
souls Carlisle.
WHILE we are reasoning concerning
life, life is gone Hume.
o, now full of briars is this working
day world,-[ Shakespeare.
The miserable have no other medicine
but only hope--[Shakspeare.
NEVER knew man of letters asham-
ed of his profession Il Thackery.
The love which arises suddenly is the
most difficult to cure DeC@W
The journey of high honor lies not in
smooth ways,-[Sir P. Sidney.
Germ makes it his sport to pull the
warrior plumes. Il Sir P. Sidney,
ALI. governments are, to certain ex-
tent treaty with the devil jacob
TO give pain is the tyrrany to mako
happy the true empire of beauty.
Steele.
All men would be masters of Others,
and no man is lord of himself
[Goethe.
A single grateful thought towards
heaven is the most perfect prayer -
[ Leasing.
A certain degree of fear produces the
same effect as rashness.-- Cardinal de
Retz,
1t is seldom the case that beautiful
persons are otherwise of great virtue -
| Bacon.
Wild is the music of autumnal winds
amongst the faded woods Words
worth.
He enjoys much who is thankful for
little. A grateful mind is great mind,
: Seeker.
Ii is surely very narrow policy that
supposes money to be the chief good
Johnson.
In plain truth, it is not want, but
rather abundance, that creates avarice.
~ Montague.
The want of belief isa defect which
ought to be concealed where it cannot
be overcome Swift.
The age of chivalry has gone, and one
of calculators and economists has sue
cecded.-[ Burton.
Conceit is not so high notion of any
as to be bashful and impotent in their
presence.-[Fuller.
I'd rather tell thee what is to be
feared than what | fear for always am
Cesar.-[ Shakespeare.
IT is not our criminal actions that re-
ouire courage to confess, but those
which are ridiculous and foolish
Rousseau.
A guilty conscience is like wllirl.
pool. drawing in all to itself which
would otherwise pass by.-[Fuller.
Contentment is not happiness. An
oyster may be contented. Happiness is
compounded of richer elements
Bovee.
Heartlessness and fascination, in
about equal quantities, constitute the
recipe for forming a court coquette.--
Madame Deluzy.
The expectations of life depend upon
diligence, and the mechanic that would
perfect his work must first sharpen his
tools -[Confucius, -
Let me be cruel, not unnatural; will
sneak daagers to her, but use none; my
tongue and soul in this be hypocrites. :
shakespeare.
Whoever appears to have much Gun
ming has in reality very little; being de
6cient in the essential article, which II
to hide cunning Henry Home.
1t is hard to say which of the two w
ought most to lament-the unhapp,
man who sinks under the SENSE OF hi
dishonor, or him who survives it-
Il