The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-11-10
Familiar Quotations.

He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small,
That dares not put it to the touch,
To gain or lose it all.-NontrOSe.
Tender-handed stroke a nettle
And it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like man Of mettle
And it soft as silk remains.-HiH.
Be to her virtues very kind;
Be to her faults little blind.-Prior.
How happy could be with either,
Were tother dear charmer away.-Gdy.
Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.-GOldSmih
Variety is the very spice of life
That gives it all its favor.-COWper.
But optics sharp it needs, l ween,
To see what is not to be seen.-IrumbuH
No man e'er felt the halter draw
With good opinion of the law.-I'runabuH.
A creature not too bright or good
For human natures daily food Wordsworth.
And the devil did grin, for his darling sin
Is pride that apes humility.-COleridge.
'Tis not the whole of life to live,
Nor all of death to ic.-Aontgomery
But there's nothing half so sweet in life
AS loves young dream.-WOOre.
Truth crushed to earth will rise again;
The eternal years of God are hers.-Byyant.
'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at ALL TeulqSon
One of the few, immortal names
That were not born to die Young.
Though the mills of God grind slowly,
They grind exceeding small.-LORgttlloU
Sweet day! so cold, so calm, so bright
The bridal of the earth and sky.--Herbert
Her feet beneath her petticoat,
Like little mice, stole in and out.-SWckling
Only the actions of the just
Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.-Shiyley
And stored windows richly digit,
Casting dim, religious light.-4HiltOn.
Doubtless the pleasure is as great,
Of being cheated as to cheat.-Butler.
Glittering and sounding generalities--Cboate
own the soft mpeachment-Sheri
High mountains are a feeling Byron.
Unwept, unhonoyed and unsung.-ScoH
He makes a solitude and calls it-peace. -
Byron.
thing of beauty is joy forever.-KeatS.
Keep step to the music of the Union. Choate
He builded better than he KNEW Emerson.
How blessings brighten as they take theil
flight Young.
All men think all men mortals but them
selves Young.
He was not of an age, but for all time-Ben
Johnson.
TITS pleasant, sure, to see ones name in
print,-ByroR.
IT'S distance lends enchantment to the view
Campbell.
He is the freeman whom the truth makes
free.-COWper.
Do good by stealth, aud blush to find il
fame.-EOpe.
None but himself can be his parallel Theo
bald.
Indemnity for the past and security for the
future.-PW.
God tempers the wind TO the shorn lamb
-Sterne.
But winter lingering chills the lap of May
-GoldSmih.
Compound for sins they are inclined to,
By damning those they have no mind to-
Butler.
The King of France, with forty thousand
men,
Went up a hill, and SO came down again
-TdrLtOa.
The devil was sick, the devil a monk would
be;
The devil was well, the devil monk was he
-RabelaiS.
For, of all the sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: 1T might have
been."- Whittier
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer
And, without sneering, teach the rest tC
Pope,
Millions for defence, but not one cent fol
tribute.-Pickney.
The quarrel is very pretty quarrel as il
ADMINISTRATION.
Measures, not men, have always been my
mark Goldsmith.
A limit at which forbearance ceases to be
virtue.-BurEe