The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-11-11
Clean.ngs.

what is honorable is becoming.
You should forgive many things in
Others, but nothing IN Yourself.
The good which you do may not be
lost, though it may be forgotten
He that catches more than belongs to
him, deserves TO lose what he has.
The more we help others to bear their
burdens, the lighter Will be our own.
We ought TO guard more against ex-
cess Of refinement than Ia, of sympathy.
An enlightened understanding has al
ways resources Of enjoyment within it.
self.
Nothing so much shows the nobility
OF the soul as that lis felicity consists in
action.
A Tennessee girl was recently mar
ried at the age Of twe.ye years and four
months.
Shallow pedants cry Up one another
much more than men of solid and useful
learning.
Great mer's ords are ike dead mems
shoes; he ma 50 jaretoo: who waiteth
for them.
To Adam Paradise was home. To the
good among lis desc4n}ents, home is
Paradise.
Virtue is the universal charm; even
it's shadow is cour.Ad when thesubstance
is wanting.
Excuses are clothes which, when asked
unawares, good breeding to naked ne
cessity spares.
Passionate ersons are ike men who
stand on their heads, hey see all things
the wrong way.
The time for reasoning is before we
have approached near enough TO the
forbidden fruit 10 look at it and admire.
There is nothing keeps longer than IA
rniddling fortune, and nothing melts
away sooner than grea. one,
We complain OF the shortness of time,
says Seneca, and yet have much more 4
than we know wha. 10 do with
Though jealousy he produced be love,
as ashes by FIRE. yet jealousy eXtinguishes
love, as ashes smother the fame,
Nature makes Us poor when We want
necessities, but custom gives the name of
poverty 20 the want OF superhuities.
He tina, defers lis charity till ne is
dead, is, if man weigh it rightly rather
liberal of another mans than his own.
Trust him with little who, without
proof, trusts you with everything, or
when lie has proved you, With nothing.
There Is great deal o. modes.y in
this world that VIII gaze at almost any,
thing provided !: can be seen through
crack.
Man has found out inventions to cheat
him of the WEAKNESS OF life, to help him
TO forget realities, and 20 hide the misery
of guilt.
Possession is the murderer of human
love; but OF artistic love Il is the very
crown and chaple., unfading and life
renewing.
Jes,s too tart are no: coo'!; bitter po-
tions are not Tor health An offensive
man ia the ieavil's bellows to blow up
contention.
A man that speake,h 10 much and
nuseth but little and lightly, wasteth mis-
mind in words, and is caunted fool (
among men.
Thoreau said wisely, that man could
afford 70 lose the respect OF his comrades
and kinsmen if he could but continue to
respect himself.
1t is not the height TO which men are
advanced that makes them giddy, but the
contempt with which they look down on
those below them.
Nature withou. leurning is like a
blind man; learning without nature is
ike the manned; practice without both
those is incomplete.
i. is wonderful how silent MAJ, aan
be when he knows his cause is Just, and
how boisterous he becomes when he
knows he is in the wrong
OF Trebonias, Tullius said:-"I am
glad lie whom must have loved from
duto, whatever he had been, is such as
| can love from inclination"
In consequence of the reckless aud ex-
travagant telling of timber that has pre-
vailed throughout western Russia during