Middletown transcript., 1877-06-16
Uariehes

Faith builds a bridge across the gulf
of death.-Young.
i Never attempt to make hay during
snow storm.
Little things on little wings, bear
little souls to heaven.
There is no good this world can give
| likethat it takes away.
That is treacherous friend against
whom you must be always on your
guard
Millions Of spiritual creatures walk
the earth unseen, both when we wake
and when we sleep.
The genius of liberty and poetry
brought into action the brightest powers
of the human mind
Though a man may become learned
by another's learning, he can never be
wise but by his own wisdom.
Wise anger is like fire from the
flint there IS a great ado to bring it,
and when it does come it is out again
Immediately.
Praise is debt we owe to the vir-
tues Of Others, and due unto our own
from all whom malice hath not made
mute or envy struck dumb.
He who wants good sense is unhappy
in having learning for he has thereby
more ways Of exposing himself
Prayer was not invented it was born
with the first sigh, the first Joy, the
first sorrow of the human heart.
Many natures which seem to us
coarse and rough, hold, after all, the
s'sweet music" in some solitary room in
their souls.
Good and evil are always paid of,
sometimes Immediately, and sometimes
not until after they have run at inter
est for spell.
We are sure to be losers when we
quarrel with ourselves; it is a cival war,
and in all such contentious triumphs
are defeats.
Planets govern not the soul nor
guide the destinies Of men but trifes
lighter than straw are levers in the
building up of our character. Topper.
Habits are often as ridiculous as
they are strong, you often see people
who can't pick up pair Of tongs,
without splitting on their hands first.
1t is only by labor that thought can
be made healthy, and only by thought
that labor can be made happy, and the
two cannot be separated with impunity.
No man, for any considerable period,
can wear one face to himself and an
other to the multitude, without finally
getting bewildered as to which may be
true.
Men of one idea are always extrem-
lists, and extremists are always nui-
sances. / might truthfully add that
an extremist Is never a man Of sound
mind.
One who had lived more than fifty
years said, as the hand Of death was
upon him, 'I have all my days been
getting ready to live, and now I must
die"
Many men become virtuous in their
old age, because they are no longer
able to set a bad example, and make
of their forced purity text to lecture
to the young.
Resist it as firmly, despise it as
proudly as we NAV, all studied un-
kindness, no matter how contemplate
it may be, has singing power in it
which reaches to the quick.
A little misery sweetens life, It Is
the salt that makes it palatable and
wholesome the shade that relieves,
and sets off the monotony and bril-
liancy of the sunshine.
No affection, save friendship, has
any sure eternity in it. Friendship,
ought, therefore, always to be cult
vated in love itself, as its only certain
guard and preservative.
The most extravagant luxury in the
world is that mean economizing which
seeks to get the best class of work done
by the best workers without paying for
it. Golden Rule.
The pains of noble souls are like
the May fosts of life-a spring fol
lows them. The pains of the wicked
are the frosts of autumnzthey precede
the punishments of winter.
Beauty, as fowery blossom soon
fades, but the divine excellencies of
ihe mind, like the medicinal virtue Of
i plant, remain in it when all those
charms are withered.
Don't send for an adviser with the
mere view of being confirmed In your
,wn opinion. You might as well send
or doctor and prescribe to him what
Medicine he ought to order.
The way to be happy is not to try
90 much to be so. You cannot catch
unbeams if you would try; but you
nay enjoy their light and warmth by
citing them shine unsolicited upon
Fou.
When all is done, human life is at
he greatest and the best, but like
onward child that must be played with
nd humored a little to keep it quiet
Intil it falls asleep and then the care is
ver.-I Temple.
The intoxication of anger like that
f the grape, shows US to others, but
iides US from ourselves, and we injure
ur own cause, in the opinion Of the
vorld, when we too passionately and
agerly defend it.
1t is sometimes of Gods mercy that
nen in the eager pursuit Of worldly
are bafled for they
re very like a train going down an in
lined plain-putting on the brake is
OF pleasant, but it keeps the car on