West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1880-01-10
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The real Chameleon u sensitive van
tty, prone 10 change color with every
chance OF surrounding.
The faithful discharge OF n duty dI.a-
grvcaOle To others maketh the heart of
the righteous to rojOicc.
Does rejected lover ever think that
the woman has done quite so well for
her own Interests as she mightg
IL is better TO bc doing the most ln-
Significant thing in the world than To
reckon half an hour inslyuificant.
The loss of Crlend Is like that OF a
limb, time may heal the anguish OF the
wound, but the loss cannot be- repaired.
Pcrverse human nature makes it COM
mon To pun downa mans good name
while he lives aud build it up after no
Is dead.
There is nothing so blind as love.
there Is nothing 80 given TO seeing. It
VIII get even from heaven TO the Vision
IL seeks.
What young man of twenty-five Is
lnsehsible TO the pleasure OF talking
with bright girl OF seventeen for u lis
tcnerY
Metaphors are often lamps which
hght nothing, and show only nakedness
OF the walls against which they are
hung.
The body may rest through the slecp
OF the night; but the poor mind works
as hard In dreams as 1t did through the
wakeful day.
Memory can CLEAN but never renew.
lt brings us JOY faint as the perfume OF
the nowcrs, faded aud dried, OF the
summer that Is gone,
Labor without eeaslng To do all the
| "a la Inn la A
lowed you, for the night will come
when no man can work. o
The man who possesses a passionat.
and rcvengeiul temper Is deprived OF
reason, and all that Is great and noble
In his nature Is suppressed
Beware of prejudiccs; they are like
rats, and mems minds are like traps.
ireludices creep IN easily, but IL II
doubtful " they ever get out.
Don't despise the small talents: they
are needed as well as the great ones.
"A candle Is sometimes as useful as the
sun.
| The greatest evils In life have had
their rise from something which was
thought To be of too little impu rtance
to be attended To.
When you are down hearted aud the
world looks black Ia you, you ought TO
be hospltable enough TO entertain n
hope OF better days.
Ii Is. after all, the person who stakes
the least, who loses most. In the afiec-
tons this Is wholly true. He who risks
nothing, loses everything.
What an argument In favor OF social
connections IL the observation, that by
communicating our grieis we have less,
ana by communicating our pleasures
we have more.
wit loses Its respect with the good
when seen In company with malice;
ana To smile NJ Jest which plants n
thorn In anothcr's breast, is To- become
"A principal In the mischief.
The end of satire Is the amendment
OF vices by corruption; and he who
writes honestly Is no more an offender
than the physician To the patient when
he prescribes harsh remedies.
II love and aiiec Ion could be won
with gifts and jewels, then indeed love
would have its price; but it ~ not so.
Affection springs from the heart only;
no gifts can produce It. A child's love
Is won more truly by IL parents iond
embrace and kiss than with glitterlng
toys.
Ie who comes from the kitchen
to sect has something OF Its cant; the
college air pursues the student, and
dry inhumanity him Who herds with
literary pedants.
Let tx i've as men who are sometime
to grow old. and to whom IL Will be the
most dreadful Of all evils to count their
past years by former luxuriance Of
health ouly by the maladies which riot
has produced.
Good words do more than hard speech
es; rs the sunbeams without any noise
will make the traveller cast oil his cloak.
which all the clustering wind could
not do. but only make him bend it clos
er 10 HIM
The damps OF autumn sink into the
leaves anG prepare them for the neces-
sity OF their fall and thus insensibly
are we, as years close around us, de-
tacbcd from our tcnacity Of life by the
gentle pressure Of recorded sorrow.
II you would relish food, labor for 1t
before you take it; II enjoy clothing,
pay for IL before you wear IT,; if yoD
would sleep soundly, take a clear con-
science to bed with you.
Evil thoughts are worse enemies than
lions ana tigers, for we can keep out
OF their way; but bad thoughts win
their way everywhere; keep your head
and heart full of good thoughts, that
bad ones may find no room TO enter.
That policy that can strike only while
the iron ~ hot will be overcome by tina
perseverance which, like Crom wells
can make the iron hot by striking; and
he that can only rule the storm must
yield 70 him who can both raise and
rule 10.
There is gold I'm the rocks which
fringe the pass OF tile Spingen, gold
even I'm the stones whicJ mends the
roads, but there Is too little Of ir TO be
worth extracting. Alas how like too
many books and sermons. Not 20 the
scriptures. They are much finer gold
their very dust Is precious.
I'm the decliDe Of life, shame and
GRIEF are Of short duration; whether 10
be that VIC bear easily what we have
borne long, or shat, finding ourselves
In age less regarded, we less regard
others; or, that we look with slight
regard upon Affections, 20 which we
know that the hand Of death is about
TO put an end.
The life that n devoted to knowledge
passes silently away. and Is very little