The Republican journal., 1876-08-24

All oll INT Seeming NOlt ana MIA
The rock beneath.
John q. Whittier
Poetry must he affirmative. 1t is the piety
Of intellect THUS saith the Lord,' should
begin the song.
Any word, every word in language. every
circumstance, becomes poetic in the hand of q
higher thought.
The philosophy which anation receives rule,
lts religion, poetry. politics, arts, trades. and
whole history.
To the poet. the world is virgin soil all i,
practicable; the men are ready for virtue: il
is always time to do right.
| require that the poem should impress me
80 that after have shut the book it shall recall
me to itself, or that passages should.
The only teller of news is the poet. When
he sings, the world listens with the assurance
that now secret Of God is TO be spoken.
The poet discovers that what men value as
substances have IL higher value as symbols
that nature is the immense shadow of man.
Characters never change. opinions alter
characters are only developed. DisraeIi.
Rich and poor live in like abundance-the
former i'll wealth, and the latter in hope
lkONlay.
Honor comes from inward vocation and
hard-won achievement; there is no honor in
donnIng life IS Il livery.
If a man is born TO eat and drink, crafty his
natural propensites and then die to live nc
more. what is he better than brute. The
dog does all that.
There is Il high political wisdom IN the Gus
tom yearly to revive the memory of civic Viz
tue and national glory in the minds of the liv-
lnT generations. k0ssuth
SO scanty is our present allowance Of happi-
ness, that IN many situations life could scarcely
be supported if hope were not allowed to re-
lieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed
from the future. johnson.
If our Creator has so beautifully provi led
for our existence here. which is but momef-
tary, and for our temporal wants. which will
soon be forgotten, how much more must he
have done in the everlasting world. Hosea
Ballou.
The nice, calm, cold thought which in wo-
men shapes itse.t so rapidly that they hardly
know 1t As thought, should always travel to the
lips VIA the heart. 1t does so III those women
whom all love and admire. Holmes.
Ii were well if there were fewer heroes; for
| scarcely ever heard Of any, except Hercules,
bat did more mischief than good. These over
grown mortals use their will with their right
hand and their reason with their left Jeremy
Collier.
Biologists complain that when they want
specimens Of the common rocks of a country
they receive curious spars. Just SO historians
give us the extraordinary events and omit lust
what we Want-the everyday life of each par
ticular time and country. [Whately.
We liud but few historians of all ages who
have been diliyent enough in their search for
truth. II is their common method to take on
trust what they distribute TO the public, by
aI..I \ Oh 4
famed writer, becomes traditional to po>terity
Byron.
How many have found solitude, not as Cicero
calls it, the pubulum Of the mind, but the nurse
of their genius. How many Of the worlds
most sacred oracles have been uttered like
those OF DodOna, from the silence of the deep
woods Bulwer Lytton.
Philosophy is Il bully that talks very loud
when the danger is at distance, but the mo-
lnent she Is hard pressed by the enemy she is
not 10 be found at her post, but leaves the
brunt of the battle to be borne By her humber
but steadier comrade, Religion. Cotton.
hen we have onlya little we should be sat
lstled, for thl, reason, that those best enjoy
abundance who are contented with the least
and so that the pains of poverty are removed
simple fare can give relish equal to the most
expensive luXures. Epicurus.
II appears to be an axiom founded on truth
that whoever shows you that he is either in
himself or in his equipage as gaudy as he can
be, conNinccs YOU that he is more so than he
can afford. Whenever 4 mans expenses eX-
cced his income, he is Indifferent in the degree
Fielding.
There is Russian proverb which says that
misfortune is next door to stupidity: and it
VIII be generally found that men who are con-
slantly lamenting their i'll luck are only reapng
the consequences of their own neglect, msman-
agement, Improvidence OF want of application.
Samuel Smiles.