Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1878-12-17
SMALL FANORS.
HABIT is ten times nature.

MORTGAGE Is latin tor death grip.
TRrTu is simple, requiring neither
study nor art.
4 COOP man is kinder to his enemy
than bad men are To their friends.
LOVE is none the less free because ii
bows IN glad obedience at the throne oi
law.
VIRTUE requires no ether rccumpense
than the tribute OF self appreciation and
respect.
THE praise OF others may he OF Use in
teaching us, not what We are, but what
We ought 10 be.
THE perfection Of human nature does
not arise 10y exemption from temptation,
but rather 10y victory III temptation.
Sudden resolutions, like the sudden
rise Ut the mercury i'll the barometer,
Indicate little less than the changable-
ness al the weather.
MEMORY can CLEAN but never can re.
new. Ii brings us joys faint rs Is the
perfume OF the flowers, faded and dried,
Of the summer that is gone.
A BEAUTIFUL smile is to the female
countenanCe what the sunbeam is t. the
landscape; it embelIshes an inferior face
and redccms an ugly one.
FAME is not won ON downy plumes
nor canupics; the man who consumes
his days without obtaining It leaves such
marks Of himself on earth as smoke III
air or foam on water.
The happiness OF your life depends up
on the quality Of yunr thoughts; there
fore guard accordingly, and take care
that YOU entertain no notions unsuita-
aule to virtue AMI unreasonable to ma
ture.
IT is with nations as with individuals
Those who know the least OF others
think the highest of themselves, for the
whole family of pride and ignorance are
inccstuous and eventually bcgct each
other.
ACrIoN hangs, rs it were, dissolved"
in speech, i'll thoughts whereof speech is
| the shadow; and precipitates tseltthcrc-
from. The kind of speech in Il man he
tokens the kind OF action you will get
| from him.
IT il not poverty SO much as pre-
! tense that harnesses Il ruined man-the
Keeping upa hollow show that must
come To an end. Have the courage to
appear poor and YOU disarm poverty al
its sharpest sting.
The love oi glory, the fear OF shame,
! the design of making fortune, the de
sire 81 rendering life easy and agreeable
and the humor of pulling down other
| people are often the causes oil that valor
so celebrated among men.
TIE old in religion dies out-the error,
error the old dispcnsation, the old super
| stition, but not the old religion. This Is
forever new and forever fresh. For this
there is no decline, no decay; forit is the
life OF God in the soul.
WARN your body with healbhy exercise,
not by covering over stove. Warm
| your spirit by performing indepen-
| IDENTITY noble deeds, not by ignohly seek
ing the sympathy OF your fellows who
are no better than yourself.
TIE soul may he compared to field
of battles, where the armies are ready at
! every moment 10 encounter. Not 4
| single vice but has more powerful OPP
ponent, and not one virtue but may be
overbornc by "A combination of vices.
TnE condition and characteristic OF a
| vulgar person Is that he never looks TOT
either help or harm IRON himself, and
characteristic Of philosopher is that he
looks to himself for all help or harm.
WE saw love is blind, and the figure OF
Cupid is drawn with a bandage round
his ewes. Blind! yes, because he does
not see what he does not like; but the
sharpcst- sighted hunter in the universe
is Love for finding what he seeks and
only that.
The greatest loss OF time is delay and
expectation which depends upon thu
future. We let 20 the present, which
we have in our power, and look forward
to that which depends upon chance
and 81 relinquish u certainty Tor al
uncertainty.
LOVE isa secondary passion IN thos,
who love most, primary in those who
love least. He who is inspired by it il
a high degree is inspired by honor IN
higher; il never reaches its plentitude o
growth and perfection but in the mos
exalted minds.
WHEN misfortunes happen to such a
dissent from us in matters of religion
we call them judgments; when to thos'
of our own sect We call them trials
when to persons neither way distin
puished We are content to attribute then
to the settled course OF things.