Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-10-14
Gems Of Thought.

Taste is the minds tact.-De Bouf-
| f1ers.
They that SOW in tears shall reap in
ljoy.-Bible.
The tears of penitents are the wine of
angels.-St. Bernard.
| The tears live in an onion that should
water this sorrow.-Shakspeare.
Believe these tears which from nv
wounded heart bleed at my eyes.-Dry-
| den.
In the scenes of moral life the soul is
at once actor and spectator.
do.
The want of goods is easily repaired,
but the poverty of the soul is irrepara-
ble.-Montaige.
Alas how seldom it is that the soul
is so still that it can hear when God
speaks to it !-Fenelon.
| Sorrow breaks seasons of reposing
hours; makes the night morning, and
the noon tide night.-Shakspeare.
There is enjoyment even in sadness;
and the same souveniers which have
produced long regrets may also soften
them.-De BOuff1ers.
A small sorrow uerracrs, great one
makes US collected; as bell loses its
clear tone when slightly cracked, and
recoverS it ii the fssure is enlarged
Richter.
The first pressure of sorrow crushes
out from our hearts the best wine; af-
terwards the constant weight oft brings
forth bitterness, the tastes and stains
from the lees of the vat.-Longfellow
Sorrow is sims echo, and the echo an.
swers the voic best where there are bro
ken walls and ruined buildings to re-
turn it. SO is sorrow when reverberated
by a broken, ruined heart.-Philip
Henry.
| Part of our good consists in the en-
deavor to do sorrows away, and in the
power to sustain them when endeavor
fails; to bear them nobly, and thus help
others to bear them as well.-Leigh
Hunt.
Unless society can effect by education
what Lord Monboddo holds man to
have done by willing it, and can get
rid of her tail, it will be wisest to let
the educated classes keep their natural
station at the head.-Hare.
Remembrance last longer than pre-
sent reality, as I have conserved blos-
SONS many years, but never fruits.
| Yes, there are tender female souls which
intoxicate themselves only among the
blossoms of the vineyard of Joy, as 9TH
ers do only with the berries of vinehill.
Richter.
Remorse is mans dread prerogative,
and is the natural accompaniment of his
constitution as knowing voluntary
agent, left in trust which his own well
fare and that of others. Remorse, if we
exclude the notion of responsibility, is
an enigma in human nature never to
be explained.-Isaac Taylor.
Nature always wears the colors of the
spirit. To man labOring under calami-
ty the heat of his own fire hath sadness
in it. Then there is kind of contempt
of the landscape by him who has just
lost, by death, a dear friend. The sky
is less grand as it shuts down over the
less worthy in.the population.
son.
Great knowledge, lift be without van
ity, is the most severe bride of the
tongue. For so have I heard that all
the noises and prating of the pond, the
croaking of frogs and toads, is hushed,
and appeared upon the instant of bring
ing upon them the light of a candle or
torch. Every beam of reason and ray
of knowledge checks the dissolutions Of
the tongue.-Jeremy Taylor.
Be avaricious of time; do not give
Iany moment without receiving it in
value; only allow hours to go from you
with as much regret as you give to gold
do not allow day to pass without in
creasing the treasury of knowledge and
virtue. The use of time is debt we
contract from birth, and it should only
be paid with the interest that our life
has accumulated.-Petou
1t is wonderful how soon a piano gets
into log cabin on the frontier. You
would think that they found it under a
pine stump. With it comes Latin gram
mar, and one of those tow-headed boys
has written a hymn on Sunday. Now
let colleges, now let senators take heed
for here is one who opening these fine
tastes on the basis of the pioneer consti.
tuition, will gather all their laurels with
his strong hands.-Emerson.
There is, perhaps, something weak
and servile in our wishing to RELY on or
draw assistance from ancient opinions
Reason ought. like vanity, to adorn
herself with old parchments and the
display of genealogical tree; more dig.
nified in her proceedings, and proud O
her mortal nature, she ought to derive
everything from herself; she should
disregard past times, and be, If I ma,
use the phrase, the contemporary of al
ages.-Madam Necker.
We ought never to be afraid to repea
an ancient truth when we feel that w
, can make it more striking Than by 8
neater turn, or bring it aion gside anoth
er truth which may make it clearer
l and thereby accumulate evidence.
belongs to the inventive faculty to So
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