The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1877-09-13
Jewels of Thought and Devotion.

When thou, 0 Death shalt wait
Without my gatt
Call not the porter out
With knock and shout
But still unnoticed bide
The gate beside
I'LL Sleep, my oft time guest
Doth come in quest
OF me- Quick after her.
Part bolt and bar:
Enter all SILENTLY
Thenceforth for me
The gate thou mavest keep.
That calm browcd Sleep
So often missed before,
Pass forth no more
Youth should be a savings bank Mime Sweet
chine.
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Bacon.
Allured to brighter worlds and led the way.
goldsmith.
The doing of an evil to avoid an evil cannot be
good. [Coerdge.
Philosophy, if rightly defined. is nallght but the
love Of wisdom. [Cicero.
The sure way to miss success is to miss the ot-
Portunity. Philarete Charles.
Wouldst thou subject all things to thvself?
Subject myself to reason. LSeneca.
Pleasure never comes sincere to man but sent
by heaven upon hard usury DRYDEN.
Though fancy may be the patients complaint
necessity is often the doctor. Zimmerman.
Physc, for the most part. is nothing but the
substitute of exercise or temperance. Addison.
There is nothing truer than physiognomv.
taken III connection with manner dickens.
Of ali the paths that lead to womans love
pity Is the straghtest. beaumont and Fletcher
The seeds of repentance are sown in youth by
pleasure, but the harvest is rcaped in age and pain
[Cotton.
Deceit is the false foau to happiness and all
the joys we travel through to vice like fairy ban
quets. vanish when we touch them. Aaron Hill
Cheaters must get some credit before they can
cozen, and all falsehood, if not founded III some
TRUTH would not be fixed i'll any belief Fuller.
There is nothing evil in life for HIM who rightly
comprehends that death is no evil; to know how
to die delivers us from all subsection and CON
straint IMontaine
Death opens the gate Of fame, and shuts the
gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the
captive and puts the bondsman's task into another
mans hand Sterne.
Many an honest man practices upon himself an
amount OF deceit sufficient. if practiced upon
another. and in little different way, to send him
to the State Prison Bove,
What we truly and earnestly aspire to be that
ID some measure we are. The mere aspiration by
changing the frame of the mind. for the moment
realizes itself Mrs. jameson.
Death alone of the gods loves not gifts nor do
YOU need to offer incense lbatons. He cares not
for altar nor hymn; the goddess of persuasion
alone has no power over him. Horace
Never let man imagine that he can pursue a
good end by evil means without SHINING against
hls own soul! Any other issue may be doubtful :
the effect on himself is certain [Southey.
Eternity is the divine treasure house. and hope
is the window, by means Of which mortals are
permitted TO see. through a glass, darklv the
things which God is preparing [Mounttord.
Whatever expands the affections or cnlarges the
sphere of our relations 70 the universe and all that
II lnherltS, In time and in eternity to the great
and beneticent cause OF a must unquestionabv
refine our nature and elevate us in the scale of be
ing [Channng.
The BIRDS of the air die to sustain thee; the
beasts of the field die to noursh thee the fishes
of the sea die to feed thee. Our stomachs are
Their common sepulchre, Good God. with how
many deaths are our poor lives patched up how
full OF death Is the life Of momentary man [Quar
les
Dangers are no more light if they once seem
light and more dangers have deceived men than
forced them: nay, it We're better to meet some
dangers half way, though they come nothing near
than to keep too long watch upon their ap-
proaches; for, If man watch too long it is odd
to fall fast aleep. bacon.
Cunning has only private and selfish aims and
sticks at nothing which may make them succeed
Discretion has large and extended views, and like
a well formed eye, commands whole horizon
Cunning is sort of short sightedness. that dis
covers the mnutest objects that are near at hand
but IS not able TO discern things at a distance
Addison.