The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1881-09-15
Ssr7s and Sentiment


Darwin: Without doubling there
can be no progress.
Locke: Nobody IS under an Obliga-
tiOn to know anything.
Parker: Reasoning presuppO5es the
trustworthiness of reason.
Douglas JerrOld; D1gmatism is
puopyism come to its full growth.
Paine: The world IS my country and
to do good Is my religion.
Shakespeare: Fortune brings in some
boats that are not steGred.
Ducis: Oar happiness is but an Un-
! hap iness more or less cOnsOled.
Doctor Johnson: Success and virtue
| do not necessarily 90 together.
George Sand: For him who does
everything in its proper time, one day
is worth three.
La R1uchefoucauld: We condemn
vice aud aeytol virtue merely through
| interest.
Emile S1uve=tre: Work furnishes
( bread for every day, but it is gayety
thas gives it SAVIOR.
TennysOn: There lives more faith
in honest dOub9 believe me, than in
| half the creeds,
La Bruyere: The most delicate of al
! pleasure consists in promoting the
| pleasure of others.
Lucretius: Not he is profane who
rejects the g07s of the vulgar, but he
who accepts them
George Sand: There are no better
prudes than the women who have some
little secret to hide.
Anon: Make friends and you viii
have friends. Make enemies aud you
will have enemies.
White: A little learning is not dan
gerOus thing To one who does not mis-
| take it for q great deal.
CARLYLE: \ speedy end to supersti-
tion-a gentle one, if you can conrive
it, but any way an end.
Soph1cIes; ReasJ IN, my father, by
the gods IS given to mantle nOblest
| treasure we can boast.
Jerome: If an Ofense come out Of
truth, better it is that the offeuse come
than the truth be concealed.
DR.. johnson: The tculv strong and
sound mind is the mind that oau en-
brace equally great things and small.
Tacilus: Truth is brought to light
I by time and reelection, while falsehc0d
gathers strength from precipitation
and hustle.
/ Spinozl: The free man thinks of
| nothing less than of death; his wisdom
consists not in the meditation of death,
/ but OF life.
John Knox: I am in that place in
which it is demanded of me to speak
the truth, and the truth will speak,
| impu-n whom it lists.
Cicero; Whether the soul be air or
| fire l know not, nor am 1 ashamed, rs
some men are, in cl>es where l am L.
lUrapt, to own that l am so.
Muller: Before all things we must
not allow ourselves to be pursua led
that, for the discovery of trut9, blind
crs are more useful than spGCiaCles.
Mon,aigue. We must not always
speak all that we know; that were fol-
ly; but what a man says should be
what he thinks, otherwise it is knav-
cry.
Z. D. Slenler: To succeed in the
world it Id much more necessary to
| possess the penetration to discover
who is fool than to discover who is a
clever man.
Tiilo son: A more glorious victory
can not be gained over another man
than this, that, when the injury began
on his part, the Kindness should begin
on ours.
H. Rogers: Investigation frequently
leads 10 doubt, where there was none
before. So much the better. If the
thing is not true, inquiry can do no
possible harm.
H. Rogers: Truth at the bottom OF
her well is of aboIt rs much use as
water there, and is of very little use
without some appliances to bring it to
/ the lips Of the thirsty.
Robert Hall: Wisdom and truth, the
offs 3ring OF the SKY. are immortal; but
cunning and deception, the meteors OF
the earth, after ,-,ittering for mo-
ment, must pass away.