The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1878-09-04
Grains of Gold

and to be got.
Never let your honest convictions he
laughed down.
The body of a sensualist is the coffin
of dead soul.
The chamber of sicknes. is the
chapel of devotion.
To speak to the purpose, one must
speak with purpose.
Entertain no thoughts which you
would blush at In words.
c. Infdelity like death. admits of no
d degree Madame de Girardin.
Virtue is the greatest ornament. and
good sense the best equipage.
Love is the fever of the soul pas
sion is the delirium of that fever.
Dishonesty is the forsaking of per-
manent for temporary advantages.
Worship your heroes from afar con-
tact withers Madame Necker.
Zane asked the oracel how be should
live and was told TO enquire Of the
dead.
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more he shall obtain from God-Uor-
ace.
Words are the daughters of the
mind, but actions are the sons of the
soul.
To Adam, Paradise was home to
the good. among his defendants, home
is Paradise.
A woman who has never been pretty,
has never been young.-Msdame SWEET
chine.
No sword is too short for the brave
man. He has only TO advance to make
1T long enough.
People who like SO much to talk
their mind. should sometimes try to
mind their talk.
ISLANDERS are ike flies. they leap over
all mans good parts, to light only
upon his sores.
He who will write heroic poems,
should make his whole life heroic
poem.-Milton.
can forgive crime, says Madame
Recamier-if it may have some grend
motiye--bu never an awkwardness.
What vast deal of time and ease
that man gains who is not troubled
with an lmpertinent curiosity about
others.
L will listen TO any ones convictions,
but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
l have plenty of my own.-Goethe.
Grass and earth to sit on, water to
wash your feet. and sffcctionate speech
are at no time wanting i'll the mansions
of the good-Menue.
False friends are like our shadows,
keeping close to US while we walk in
the sunshine, but leaving us the instant
We cross the shade.
No thought is more fearfully solemn
than that God has given to man free
agency, and made eternal life to depend
upon our choices and actions.
1t is shame for a rich Christian to
be like Christmas box, that receives
all and pothing can be got out until it
be broken in pieces.
1t is with the finest character as it is
with the finest woods and marbles the
polished hand is still needed to bring
out the veins of beauty and grace.
In proportion as the structure of
government gives force TO the public
opinion it ls ESSENTIAL that the public
opinion should be enlightened: Cherish
public credit.
Royalty IS impotence and . vulgar
show. compared with the deep and
Quickening power which many a Chris
tan teacher has exerted on tie immor-
tai soul.
If you wish success in life, make per-
severence your bosom friend experience
your wise counsel; caution your elder
brother. and hope pour guardian gen
ius Addison.
If you would be well with great
mind, leave him with q favorable i'm
preston OF ycu; if with a little mind,
leave him with favorable opinion OF
Misunderstanding.
There never was any party. faction,
sect or cabal whatsoever, in which the
most ignorant were not the most vio-
lent ; for bee is not buzzing animal
than blockhead.-Pope.
Particular events may occur to over
throw any government, but the general
and ultimately inevitable tendency Of
things is not the less to establish and
perpetuate the democratic form.
1t is no disgrace to be able to do
everything; but to undertake, or pre-,
tend to do. what you are made for, is
not only shameful, but exceedingly
troublesome and vexstious - Putarth.
BEDS. These are very necessary, as
well as convenient and comfortable
but like all other things in this world,
there are good and bad beds. Feather
beds are injurious in every way To
health. aud should. therefore. be dis.
pensed with. The way III which many
manage them is also very absurd
they rise from them in the morning,
make them up steaming hot. close the
doors and windows, all TIL bedtime
Then the scene is acted over again.
All beds should be most thoroughly
aired after being used, that the gases
and odors impaired To them from the
human body may be removed. The
room. also, should be well ventilsted.
There are many materials that make
more healthful beds than feathers.
among which may be enumerated hair.