Middletown transcript., 1877-09-22

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Joy the purer and choicer it Is
eAgoOd cause IS more injured by q
weak defence than BY strong attack,
A coed discourse is that from which
one can take nothing without taking
the life
Iheter wonder tosss men wicked,
but 1 efaen wonder to see them not
ashamed.
Predominant opinions are genstaIly
the opinions Of the generation that is
vanishing ao
Though shoes have no minds, they
understood an people except those that
are barefoOted.
More shillings conceded to the max
ing Of . shirt would double the reli-
gion Of mankind.
Let US be patient. Etis the hour
for calmnsss5 quiet and trust, with
sharp watching
Snodgrass says, IN his dry, sarcastic
way, that selfmade men are apt to
worship their maker
Mean spirits. under disappointment,
ike small beer IN q thunder storm,
always turn sour.
There may be many doors to shut
close them all, for it is in closet prayer
that the voice Of the Believed is heard.
It Is not until we have passed
through the furnace that We are made
to know how much drQsa was in our
composition. a
Violent passions are formed ii soli-
tnde. In the hustle Of the world no
object has time to make deep I'M
preston.
The exhuberance Of youth may be-
tray good girls into little indiscretions,
but not into vulgarity, which IS only
one remove from vice.
girls would have roses for their
/ cheeks, they must do as the roses do
20 to sleep with the tiles and get up
with the morning glories
/ When the heart pronounces strong
lly, its meaning IS sure to appear in the
countenance, and lend to conduct the
purple Of victory
It is one thing to love truth. and to
lseek it for its own sake and quite an
other to welcome % much Of i that
tallies with our impressions and prejur
diees
IN ell places and il all times, those
religionists who have believed too much
have been more inclined to violence
and persecution than those who believe
| too little la-;ias .ssa
A good man and wise man may at
times be angry with the world at
times grieved for It but be sure no
man was ever discontinued with the
world Who did bis duty l'e s e
! Carlyle does not believe that the
affairs Of this world can Be settled BY
talk. No, they are oftener unsettled
than settled by the wagging Of the IN
ruly member.
| Love is circumspect, humble, and
upright; not yielding TO aofness Or to
levity, nor attending 70 vain things
il is sober, chaste, steady, quiet and
guarded in all the senses.
How violently do rumors blow the
sails of popular judgments How few
there are that can discern between
truth and dtruth-ikeness, between shows
and substance
Persons who like to contemplate
their own Importance. should consider
that the world got along very veil be-
fore they were born and viii probably
get along equally well after they ara
dead. aeti
Mirabeau was busy and had no time
for duels. He answered challenges
with this stereOtypsd fOrmula; Mon
sieur you are put upon my list; but I
warn you that it is long, and I grant
no preferences. a ~ -
Beware of cOnfding in distant pros
poets of happiness, lest they should be
suddenly intercepted by the most trii-
vial present vexation. A leaf in the
foreground is large enough to conceal
a forest on the far horizon.
All our sufsrings ara ordered byia
father; 'tis the potion our father gives
to drink. and whatever bitter ingredis
emit there is in it still it is Of e fathers
procuring and why suspect it to be
poison and be afraid oft u
stMan thinks of the sorrow, Observs
ed the lamented Balwer Lgtton, ''wOs
mans6f the consolation" After a do
nestle unpleasantness' it IS always she
who does him up in linimsht or rnbs
him down with arnica. hla
Pope says that from fourteen to
twenty he read only for amusement;
from twenty to thirty for improvement
and. instruction; that during the first
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