The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1875-06-01
SENSE AND SENTnIENT.

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BY their fckleness women escape much
misery. Birds save themselves only with
their wings.
All enduring success, says Ruskin,
arises from faith in human nature or a
belief in Immortality,
Happiness is ball after which We run
wherever it rolls, and we push itwith our
feet when it stops.
Success is full Of promise till men get
it, and then 1t is last years nest from
which the bird has flown.
Coleridge says that good prose is prop.
er words in proper places-pOetry the
best words in the best places.
An honest man never abandOns wo.
man, but he knows hoy to make himself
iorsaken.-Ffnch Maxim.
We read the book Of experience only
backward, and find II punCtuatCd M God
willed.-Aiiec Arnold Chd'gtord.
The grand essentials to happiness in
this life are something to do, something
TO love and something to hope for.
What men want, says Bulwcr, is not
talent, il Is purpose; in other words, not
the power to achieve, but the will to la
Dor,
The progress Of knowledge is like that
Of the sun-sO slow that We cannot see 1t,
but so sure as to change night into day.
Many persons are Judged harshly by
the wnTli becauSe they allow no eve but
Gods to see into the inner sanctuaries oil
their hearts.
A woman never Ia deceived by the love
she inspires, but she deceives herself
through that which she experiences
Aseae IiouSSdyc
The power Of applying the attention,
steady and undissapated, to single OBJ
eCt Is the sure mark to superior genius.
Lord Chesterfield.
To knowa man, observe how he wins his
object, rather than how he loses II; for
when we fail, our pride supports us when
we succeed, II betrays us.
Experience keeps q dear school, but
fools will learn in no other, and scarce in
that; for it Is true we may give advice,
but we cannot give Conluct.-FFdnEiin,
Whatsoever religion is not work may
70 and dwell among the Brahmins, Anti
nomians, Spinning Dervishes, or where II
will; with me II shall have no harbOr.-
Carlyle.
Good manners Is the art Of making
those people easy with whom we converse.
Whoever makes the fewest persons lln'
easy is the best-brcd IN the company
Dean SWJ.
The capacity OF sorrow belongs to our
grandeur; and the lOftest Of our race are
those who have had the profOundest grief,
because they have had the profoundcSt
sympathies.-lIenry Giles
The harp holds in Its wires the posi-.
bilities Of nOblest chords; yet, II they DO
not struck, they must hang dull and use
less. 50 the mind ia vested with hun
drcd powers, that must be smitten by 0
heavy hand 10 prove themselves the oil.
spring Of Divinity.
For tho narrow mind, whatever he at
tempts is still trade; for the higher, an
art; and the highest, in doing one thing,
does all; or to speak lcSs paradoxiCally, in
the one thing which he does rightly he
sees the likeness Of all that Is done right
ly.-GOcthe.
To read, to think, to love, to hope and
to pray; these are the things that make
men happy. They have power to do these
things; they never will have power to do
more. The worlds prosperity or adver.
sity depends upon our knowing and
teaching these few things, but upon iron
or glass, steam or electricity, in no wise.
-RusEin.
Who says angels must be all young
and splendid? viii there not be some
comforting ones, shabby and tender,
whose radiance does not dazzle or Devil
der; whose faces arc worn, perhaps,
while their stars shine with gentle,
tremulOus light more soothing to our
aching, carill.bound hearts than the glO.
riOus radiance Of brighter spirits?
have found rarer vintage
Than the wine Of Cyprus oldCn,
Than The nectar Of Olympus
| Drunk by gods In ayes golden;
lIarrr than Tho daugllts Of lIhCnisll
| Quaiiud In monastery, palace;
And tho secret discovered
kissing Alice
do not know anything which more
iasCinates youth than what, for want Of
GroJuoIIv EowoyOr, tI;is ncculinr kind 81
sst;mniinn changes yery much. II Ia no
longer tS"so WIZ nro brilliant those who
"gScI IN Jn thc moSt and heal work with
,hc lsost ,nnorcnt minis md trouble,
~Lom 90 ora mnst Inclined IN admire,
"" ovcr,uHIlv some IN admire labor, and
" W. ros"oct II tie more tie more onenly Il
IL nroriS;moI Lv iho ISborioMs mnn IN l,c
III cD,,S" of L;S SUCCESS Il be has INV Suc.
r "s V IN hoOst nf"-.S;r Irjbwr Wjn'
'''' =" ''''' VS.
Some people have q peculiar weakness
for looking on the dark side, anu iatl TO
find anything. good III lie. IL basin oil
sand rich with iron ore y careIesSly ex-
nmincd, tIle ore may not be dlscovered;!or
liza wooden stick Is passed through the
sand, II may fail to gather a single atom
Of the valuable metal. But let a magnet
pass through the same sand, ana 1t viii
be Immediately surrounded with the iron.
Reader, shall lie be t3you q barren waste
shall give you wealth Of sympathy and
u constant joy? The choice Ia largely
with yOu.