The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-12-07
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will hear reason.
Weulds't thou subject all things to
thyself? Subject myself to reason.
1t isno use running; to set out betimes
is the main point.
There is no greater punishment than
that of being abandoned to ones self.
Provision is the foundation of hospi-
tality and thrift the fuel OF magni6cence.
Produce is a quality incompatible with
vice, and can never effectively be enlisted
in its cause.
The art of living easily as to money is
to pitch your scale of living one degree
below your means.
The public wishes itself to be managed
like woman one must say nothing to
it but what'it likes to hear.
Our companions please sless from the
charms we find in their conversation than
from those they find in ours.
True contentment depends, not upon
what we have tub was large enough
for Diogones, but a world was too little
for Alexander.
I pity the man who can travel from
Dan to Beersheba and cry "'Tis all bar
rem +" And 80 it is, and SO is all the
world to him who will not cultivate the
fruits it offers.
The more enlarged is our own mind
the greater number we discover Of men
of originality. Your commonplace peO~
pie see no difference between one man
and another.
If cities were built by the sound of
music then some edifces would appear to
be constructed by grave, solemn tones,
others to have danced forth to light
fantastic airs.
An instictive taste teaches men to
build their churches in fiat countries
with spiresteeples, which, as they cannot
be referred to any other object, point, as
with silent finger, to the sky and stars.
1t is expedient tohavean acquaintance
with those who have looked into the
world who know men and understand
business, and can give you good intel
ligence and good advice when they are
needed.
A frequent intercourse and intimate
between two persons make
them so like that not only their dis
positions are nodded like each other, but
their very face and tone of voice con-
tract a certain analogy.
A companion that feasts the company
with wit and mirth, and leaves out the
sin that is usually mixed with them, be
is the man and let me tell you, good |
and good discourse are the
very sinews of virtue.
Meek young men grow up in libraries,
it their duty to accept the
views which Cicero, which Locke, which |
Bacon have given; torgetful that Cicero |
Locke and Bacon were only young men
n libraries when they wrote these books |
Those authors into those hands nature |
1as placed magic wand, with which |
hey no sooner touch us than we forget |
The unhappiness in life, than the dark
ness leaves our soul, and we are recon-
,iled to existence should be placed |
among the benetactors of the human race.
Attention makes the genius; all learn
ng, fancy and science depend upon it.
Newton traced back his discoveries to
lis unwearied employment. 1t builds
bridges, opens new worlds, and heals
diseases without it taste is useless, and
he beauties of literature are unobserved.
One should go to sleep as homesick
passengers do, saying, "perbaps in the
morning we shall see the shore" To us
Who are christians, is it not a solemn
)ut a delightful thought that perhaps
nothing but the Opaque bodily eye
prevents us from behOlding the gate
which is open just before us and moth
ng but the dull ear prevents us from
learing the ringing of those bells of joy
which welcome us to the heavenly land2
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