The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1880-11-05
GoIden Words.

The following extracts are culled from
an address by Hon. Horatio Seymour to
the young-lady students of Wells Fe-
male College, Aurora, N. ".
Youth is beautiful in the eyes Of age,
and it looks with admiration upon the
courage with which the young confront
the uncertainties of the future, and the
faith that leads them to look forward 10
happiness and success.
Self cheating is the most common
kind of fraud 1t is good rule, when
you find that subjects of Importance or
objects Of value ARE matters Of indiifer-
ence, to conclude that there are some
things which you do not, but which you
ought to, know.
There eisnothingyou can lenrnnboutany
subject which will not give it new inter
est in your eyes. The deeper your learn
ing the better, but the quality of knowl-
edgeislike that of gold, which, although it
isreduced to the thinnest leaf, yet makes
all the things glitter that it touches.
Surface knowledge is lightly spoken Of
by the learned, but it is information
worked out in the pnst by toll and study
until it is brought within tho reach Of
all.
In the course Of my life have studied
all classes of men with caro-, and, MS q
rule, l have found those TO be the most
cheerful and wise whose habits and OBJ
servations have given the widest range
to their mental action, and have brought
within the scope Of their thoughts tho
most varied topics, although they may
not have been learned with regard to any
of them.
Men do not live in the samo world.
| When We look around us we see That
they live in very different houses; some
I are humble houses, but poorly finished ;
others are costly residences, adorned
with paintings and statuary, and every
thing that art can do to crafty the
taste.
We make the world in which we live,
1t is more disreputable TO live in one
that is dull and barren than it is to
make our home in poor and dilapidated
houses.
Intelligence will enable us to cope
with the problem Of life, 70 endure its
misfortunes with fortitude, and to bear
| it's successes with moderation and wis
dom.
The Office of the eye is to give facts to
the mind. Things are not seen in a
true sense merely because they are
br> ught within the range of the vision,
but when they have stirred the mind and
thoughts have been evolved.
So strong are the enlSyments Of look
ing upon famous objects, or OF treadinq
upon ground made sacred by events,
that men cross broad oceans to visit
them. And through after life they are
wiser and happier for the knowledge
thus gained.
1t may be that some are gifted with
aptitudes in certain directions beyond
others that some have faculties fol
learning, for arts, or for science, that
gives them peculiar advantages in theil
pursuits.
When I am visited at my farm by
those who feel no sympathy with nat
ure, and say they have no taste fol
country life make up my mind they
do not like it because they do not know
enough about the world around them t.
snioy its beauties.
No one who has reached the age o
three-score years and ten would, upor
reflection, he willing to rub out from
the experience in life the sorrows which
have softened his character, the mis-
takes which have taught him wisdom
or wrong-doings which he has ever re
GREETED, and which, by their influences
have made the golden threads whicl
may be formed in the texture Of hi
moral character,