Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1879-08-21
.AYETTE COUNTY HE
Gems.
One has only to die to be praised.


One has only to die to be praised.
Handsome apples are sometimes sour.
1t is not enough to aim; you must hit
There is limit at which forbearance
ceases to be a virtue.-BURKE.
Speak little, speak truth; spend little,
pay cash.
Attention to small things is the econo-
my of virtue.
Tomorrow is the day on which lazy |
folks work and fools reform.
Wisdom and virtue make the poor rich
and the rich honorable.
Truth is as impossible to be sOiled by
any outward touch as the esunbeam.-MIL-
TON.
They never taste who always drink.
They always talk who never think
PRIOR.
1t is a curious fact that rain is only app
preciated when it doesn't come.
Charity gives itself rich, but eoveteous-
ness boards itself poor.
Temperance is tree which has con-
tentment for its root and peace for its
fruit.
Never tell man he's a fool; in the
first place, he won't believe you; in the
next, you make him your enemy.
Toll, feel, think, hope; man is sure to
dream enough before he dies without
making arrangements for the purpose.
1t may be homely motto, but it is a
good one: calm high; he that aims at
barn-door will never hit the weather-cock
on the church spire.''
Insult not misery, neither deride in
trinity, nor ridicule defOrmity; the first
is inhuman, the second shows folly, and
the third pride.
When thou art obliged to speak, be sure
to speak the truth; for equivocatton il
half way to lying, and lying is the whole
way to hell.-WM. PENN.
WHENEVER new and startling fact il
brought to light in science, people first
say, ssIt is not true," then that sit il
contrary to religion and lastly, thai
''everybody knew it before. .''-AGAssIz.
Fishermen in order to handle eels Sc
curely, cover them with dirt. In like
manner does detraction strive to grasI
excellence.-DoUGLAs JERROLD.
The secret laws of human relation ar
= like those of chemistry, an instant of tim
: is enough for blending where the afffnit
is true; an eternity is not enough if tn
affinity does not exist.-GEoRGE EIsT.
Two of the most precious things ar
reputation and life. And yet, strange
tell, the most contemplate whisper ma
deprive one of the first, and the weakes
4 weapon of the second. Be more anxious
q then, to deserve good name than to po'
r. sess it.
ss WE doubt whether man eyer bring
r his faculties to bear with their full fore
n upon any subject until he writes upon
o. for the instruction or edification;;of other
lie To place it more clearly before others, h
l. feels necessity of viewing it more viviC
al ly himself.-W. f. CLAIMING.
r. EVERY book is, in an intiment sense,
G. circular letter to the friends of him WI
i writes it. They alone take its meaning
ne they find private messages, assurances
ly love, and expressions of gratitude drol
re- ped for them in every corner. The pH
Il, lie is but a generous patron who defra.
e. the postage.-ROB'T L. STEVENSON.
In 1 wish to see America not like the o
al powers of earth, grasping, exclusive, al
CT narrow, but benefactor, such as
In country ever was, hospitiable to all II
ed tions, legislating for all nationalitte
OF Nations were made to help each other
ce much as families were; and all advanc
IN ment is by ideas, and not by brute fore
ne EMERSON.
&c NATURE is mythical and mystical :
NJ ways, and works with the license al
- extravaganza of genius. She has her la
% uriOus and tlorid style, as well as al
30 Having pilgrims cup to make she Civ
~ to the whole-stem, bowl, handle al
nose, some fantastic shape, as if it we
W to be the car of some marine deity,
~ Nereus or Triton.-THoREAN
-. To write the poems for the human co
science, were it only of single man, we
it only of the most infamous of me
would be to swallow up all epics in
~ single epic. The conscience is the cha
,rt of chimeras, of lusts and of temptation
he the furnace of dreams, the cave of t
aid ideas which are our shame; it is the pa
,ds demonium of sophisms, the battlefie
m of the passions.-VICToR HUGO.
ty. Col. r. G. Ingersoll has sent the folio
m M ing note to Miss Emma Abbott: "Sinc
in saw you years ago with the guitar, 70
soul has burst into flowers. You were
ler chrysalis then. To-day, when 1 listen
=ho to your voice, heard the rustling
wings. Who could.have thought that
'ur little, bleak field of your past, drifted wi
'ur snow, over which moved the mind, wot
o ~ at last be covered with the blossoms
re- song! And yet, all this, it may be, v
ess necessary. In your voice there is mingl
Tie the pathos of the past and the glad v
:" tory of the present. You have suffer'
ad loved and succeeded. Your voice is
he fresh as dew and pure as the dawn.
re low me to mingle my thanks and congr
not ulations with the general voice, and to
Re- main yours, r. G. INGERso IL.
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