Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-09-23

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Smiles are like songs in love; they
much describe but nothing prove.
Women do not disapprove their
rivals; they hate them.-James Par
| ton
The robbed that smiles steals
something from the thief -Shak-
speare.
Men may, | find. be honest, though
they differ. - Tancred and ,SigiS-
mundd.
A good hook is the best of friends
the same to-iay and forever
1upp3r.
That is the brlefest and sagest of
maxims whioh bids to 'medd!e not"
| COult0n.
Romance has been elegantly defin.
ed as the offspring Of fiction and love.
-Djsrael.
Curiosity is as much the parent of
| attention as atten ton is of memory.
= Whately.
1t is a kind Of good deed to say
we'll and yet words are no deeds
Shakespeare.
Sweet is the breath of morn her
rising sweet with charm of earliest
bird -MiHon.
Pleasures are the poppios spread ;
you seize the flower, its bloom is
shed. = Burns.
Much more may a judge overweight
himself in cruelty than in clemency.
Sir. P. Sidney.
The stars hang bright above, sill
ent, as if they watched the sleeping
earth Coteridge.
In order TO improve the mind, we
ought less to learn than to contem.
plate DeScarteS.
The ruins of house may be re-
paired why cannot those of the
face ?-La Fontaine
Sorrow turns the stars into
mourners and every wind Of heaven
into dirge.-H0nndy.
at is unworthy, lady dear,
Your dignity Of mind,
To take such trouble with your gear"
Beware Of entrance to quarrel !;
but being in, bear it that the opposer
may beware of thee. Hamlet.
Fine thoughts are wealth, for the
right use of which men are, and
ought to be accountable Festus.
If thou docst ILL., the JOY fades, not the pains !;
If well, the pains doth fade, the JOY remains
-George Herbert
The grand essentials to happiness
in this life are something to do, some
thing to love, something to hope for
1t is periIous to make a chasm in
human affections not that the cape
is so long aud wide-but so quickly
closed again.
How strange is the life Of foun-
tain born at every moment, and
far surprising the venerable antiql-
ty of forest. = Hawthorne.
He who commences with certain
ty will end with doubts, but he who
is content to begin with doubts may
end with Gel tainty.-Bacon.
o. gentlemen the time of life is short;
To spend that shortness basely, 'twere too
long,
Tho lie did ride upon the dial's point,
Still ending at the rival Of an hour
-SAakYeare
Generosity during life is very
different thrg from generosity in the
honr Of Death. One proceeds from
genuine liberalrty and benevolonce,
the other from pride or fear
The martyrs of voice far exceed
the martyrs to virtue, both in endur-
ance and in number. So blinded are
we by our passions that we suffer
more TO be damned than to be saved.
-Colf0n.
There is NJ word or action but
what may be taken with two hands;
either with the right hand of charita
bic Construct n, OF the sinister in
terpfetation of malice and Suspicion.
Bishop Han.
Far from the crushed f1wnr Of
gladness on the road of life, a sweet
perfume is waited over to the pres
ent hour, as marching armies often
send ont from hearths and fragrance
of tho tramplod plains. Richter
We move too much 10 pIatoons; we
march by sections we do not live
in our vital individuality enough
we are slaves to fashions, in mind
and in heart, if not TO our passions
and appcttes. - Chapin.
The mind is ia a sad state when
sleep. the all involving, cannot GEN.
fine his spectre within the dim region
of her sway, but suffers them to
break forth, affrightiDg the actual
life VITA secrets that perchance be-
long to deeper one.
Imporfection is in some sort essen
tial TO All that we know Of life. 1t is
the sign Of life in a mortal body,
that is to say, of a state Of progress
and change Nothing that lives i,
or can be rigldIy perfect; part of it
is decaying, part nascent. The fox
glove hl5ssom--a third part bud, q
third part past a third part 10 full
blooms type of the life of this
rld.-RuSkin.