The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-11-06
dIE wheeling TUESDAY MORNING NoYENBER s
Profitable Scriptures.

Duties are ours, events are Coda
candOr is the brightest gem Of criticism.
DiEasi.
Change amusss the mind, yet scarcely
profts.-GOsi6s,
He makes no friend who never made n
foe.-TSRRySOa.
A coward never tOrgRve; IT is not in his
nature.-StGHs.
BlSssedness Ia whole eternity older
than dHmnation.-Ritehey.
Early and proyident fear Is the mother
Of sAiety.-EdRuRd Burke.
Behavior is q mirror in winch every
one shows his immage.-GOtthe.
Bashiulness Is an ornament to youth,
but = reproaeh to old age.-AriStOtls.
Itthou faint in the day Of adversely,
thy strength is SmAll.-R0rerbS "a; 10.
Characters never change; opinions al
ter, characters are only deVeloped.-Dis-
rueii.
Every one is rs God made him-and
otten'times a great deal worse From
"DOR QRiEOte,"
Character gives splendOrs to youth and
awe TO wrinkled skin and gray hairs
Il. ". ER1Son.
They are never alone that are accom-
panied with noble thOughts.-Sr Philip
Si,lRsy's arcadia"
Mankind worship success, but think
too little Of the means by which il is at.
tained.-HsnTy ". EeId.
Books are men OF high nature, and the
only men who speak aloud for future
times to hear.-Mrs Broraing.
There is no man so iriendless, but that
he can find friend sincere enough to tell
him disagreeable truths.-BulmSr.
Philosophy triumpha easily enough
over pSst and future evilF, but present
evils triumph over philOsophy.--RoeE-
etouau'd.
As good almost kill man as kill a
good book; he who kills man kills a
reasonable creature, but he who destroys
good book kills reason itseli.-Mlton
When our souls shall leave this dwell.
ling, the glory Of one fair and yirtuous
action is above all the scutcheons on our
tomb or silken banners Ger us.J.. -ShHley.
lis much easier to meet with error
than to find truth; error is on the surface,
truth is hidden in great depths; and the
way TO seek does not appear to all the
World.-Gathe.
Duty, though set about by thorns, may
still be made a staff, supporting even
while il fortunes. Cast it away, and like
the prophets wand it changes to snake.
Douglas JeTOld.
Brevity is the soul and body OF wit
1t is wit itself, for 1t alone isOlates sufic.
iently for contrast'; because redundance
or profnsiOn produces no distinctness.-
Jean Paul RiehtT.
Faces are as legible as books, only with
these circumstances TO recommend them
to our perusal, that they are read in
much less time and are much less likely
10 deceive us.-LGraisr.
Reading maketh full man; confidence
ready man; histories make men wise
poets, witty; the mathematics, subtitle;
natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave;
logic and rhetoric, able to contend.-Ba.
con.
Neither borrower nor lender be,
for loan oft loses both itself and friend;
and borrowing dulls the edge OF husban-
dry. This above ALTO thine own self
be true, and it must follow, as the day
the night, thou canst not he false TO any
man.-PoIoaiuS in Hdmlsi.
Let him who gropes painfully in dark
ness or uncertain light, and praYs vehe-
mently that the dawn may ripen into day,
lay this precept well to heart: "Do the
duty which lies nearest TO thee" which
thou knowest TO be duty; thy second
duty will have already become clearer
Thomas Carlyle.
0 eloquent just ard mightie death,
whom none could advise, that hath per:
suaded; what none hath dared thou hath
done; and chen all the world hath flat.
tered, thou only hath cast out Of the
world and despised. Thou hath drawne
together all the fame.Stretched greatness,
alf the pride, cruelty, and ambition Of
men, and covered it all over with these
two narrow words" He jacet."-Sir
Waller RG'eighs HiStorycihe World.