Middletown transcript., 1877-10-06
GarieHts.
To-day viii be yesterday tomorrow.
He hath lived i'll that knows not
how to die well.

how to die well.
The sourest man is not wholly hope
less when he viii not blaspheme before
his son.
Before you try to describe sunset,
attempt a description of an artists
picture Of onel
Patience and cheerfulness adorn the
ruins of fortune, as ivy does those Of
castles and temples.
Necessity Of action takes away the
fear of the act, and makes bold resOlu-
ton the favorite Of fortune.
A good word is an easy obligation;
but not to speak Ill requires only our
silence, which costs us nothing.
Silent triumphs have violent ends,
and in their triumph die; like fire and
powder, which, as they kiss, consume.
Sacqnes are fitted to the figure.
The back must be narrow to be fash
fonable, and is cut in innumerable
small pieces.
The phrases that menareaceustomed
to repeat necessarily end by becoming
convictions and ossify the organs of in
telligence.-GOethe.
The Slav Mohammedans are not
Turks, and have a hatred of their Os-
manh rulers and oppressors as intense
as that of the Christians.
With every exertiOn, the best man
can do only a moderate amount Of
good; but it seems in the power Of the
most contemplate individual to do in
calculable mischief.
The useful encourages itself; for the
multitude produce it, and no one can
dispense with it; the beautiful must be
encouraged; for few can set it forth,
and many need it.
Men of age object too much, consult
too long, adventure too little, repent
too soon, and seldom drive business
home to the full period, but content
themselves with a mediocrity of sue
cess.
You have got into the way Of put
ting aside convictions. The eyeIid
naturally closes when any object is
coming against it so does the heart
Of a practiced wording close and shut
out convictions.
We are too apt, in our wonder and
our applause at the height to which q
man has attained against all odds, to
forget to note whether his steps up the
incline have been clean and justly
taken.
It is a strange thing to behold what
gross errors and extreme absurdities
men do commit for want of friend to
tell them Of them. The light of q
good counsel is that which setteth all
things straight.
What is this life but the circulation
Of little mean actions We lie down
and rise again, dress and redress, feed
and grow hungry, work or play, and
are weary; and then we lie down
again and the circle returns.
It is easier to forgive an ancient
enemy than the friend we have of
Tended. Our resentment grows with
our underset, and we feel vindictive
in due degree with our own doubts of
the chance of finding forgiveness.
To solicit patronage is, at least in
the event, to set virtue to sale. None
can be pleased without praise, and few
can be praised without falsehood; few
can be assiduous with servility, and
none can be servile without corrup-
ton.
Little martin boxes of homes are
generally the most happy and cosy;
little villagers are nearer to being
atoms of a shattered paradise than
anything we know of; and little for
tunes bring the most content, and little
hopes the least disappointment
DR.. johnson once siIenced a noto-
rious female backbiter, who was con.
demning some of her friends for paint
ing their cheeks, by the remark that
''it is a far less harmful thing for
lady to redden her own complexion
than to blacken her neighbor's."
A woman may love her husband de-
votedly-may sacrifice fortune, friends,
family, country for him-she may
have the genius of a Sappho, the
loveliness Of an Armida; but-melan-
choly fact-if with these she fail to
make her home comfortable, his heart
will inevitably escape her.
Evil is easily discovered; there is
an infinite variety. Good is almost
unique. But some kinds of evil are
almost as difficult to discover as that
which we call good; and often partic-
ular evil Of this class passes for good.
It needs even certain greatness of
soul to attain to this, as to that which
is good.
The best woman N all the world is