The Republican journal., 1876-11-09

just before close my eyes,
look up, and keep a-listening
For the music from the skies
And the stars shine out so brightly
That | cannot think but they,
While | listen to them nightly,
VIII repeat the heavenly lav.
Love seldom haunts the breast where learn.
ing lies. Pope.
Count yourself the caretaker of all men under
God. SeXtius.
Hate makes us vehement partsans but love
still more so. LGothe
The eyes Of critics. whether in commencing
or carplng, are both on one side, like "A turbot's
Landor.
In the counsel it is good to see dangers; but
III execution, not to them unless they be
very great. Bacon.
Light and adjustment often come insensibly
TO us from labors of which the direct positive
result seems small. Matthew Arnold.
Nature, that we may not be disgusted with
the sight of our GetormIies, has wisely thrust
the action of seeing outward. fMontaigne
False happiness is like false money; it passes
for Il time as well as the true. but when it is
brought to the touch we find the lightness and
alloy, and feel the loss.
There is nothing like taking all YOU do at a
moderate estimate; it keeps mind and body
Iahdulls NHcltdS SIuuullO0utnI notions
apt to hurry both into fever [C Bronte
Poetry is not made out of the UNDERSTANDING
The question Of common sense is ALWAYS
What is it good for:' a question which w0nld
abolish the rose and be trumphantly answered
by the cabbage. Lowell.
The wonderful contradictions of the human
heart are never seen so clearly as when after a
long and arduous chase, we reach and catch
me nv!ng wlshed-for good; and immediately
throw 1t down as worthless, because, forsooth
POSSESSED.
COMES OF ITSELF. No mocLing in this
world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of
beng told to cultivate happiness. What does
such advice meanE Happiness is not potato
10 be planted in mould, and filled with manure.
Happiness is Il glory shining far down upon us
out of heaven. She is Il divine dew which the
soul, on certain OF IFS summer evenings. feels
dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and
golden trntage Of Paradise. Charlotte Brontc,
of all the work that produces results, nine
tenths must be dlldgery. There is no work
from the highest to the lowest. which can he
done well by any man who is unwilling 10
make that sacrifice. Part OF the way nobility
OF The devotion of the true workman to his work
consists III the fact that man is not iaunted bv
nnding that dfud9ery must lie done; and no
man can readily succeed in anv work at life
without good deal of what, in plain English.
is called pluck
Progress a fact. | am old enough now to
look back with some capacity Of observation
Tor forty years; and can in the progress
OF society Il most marked evidence of the higher
general intelligence, the greater aptitude for
looking at things as they are, and for rot al
lowing strange, absurd notions to take posses
sion OF the mind; while, again, ] can trace,
even within the last ten years, in a most re-
markable manner, the prevalence of Il desire 10
do things right for the rights sake, and not
merely because they are polite. Dir. w. Il.
Carpenter.
All religious interests, all Gospel doctrines
and institutions. are meant. These varied in
terests are identical with the true interests of
man. All others are temporary and uncertain.
These are substantial and eternal; the tides
may cease to flow and the earth may cease to
roll, and the stars may cease to shine, but these
eternal verities will remain unchanged. These
interests, whether acknowledged or not, are
yours. Certain worldly interests YOU may
commit to others, as railroad or a bank NAV
be lett to board of directors. In these things.
affecting your personal relations to duty, YOU
are your own director; no defaultins cashier
can run away with your investments. Rut
some Will say, "These things are not for me ::
l do not pretend to be a Christian" But Won
have no right to thus excuse Yourself If YOU
had that privilege, all others would have it. and
Christianity would be Il delusion. No one can
rlghtfully delegate his personal responsibilities.
DR.. Miner.