The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-08-11
Sansa and Sentiment.

Darwin: Without doubling there
can be no progress.
Locke: Nobody is under an obliga-
ton to know anything.
Parker: Reasoning presupposes the
trustworthiness of reason.
Douglas Jerrold: Dogmatism is
puppyism 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 steered.
Ducts: Our happiness is but an un-
happiness more or less consoled.
Doctor Johnson: Success and virtue
do not necessarily go together.
George Sand: For him who does
everything in its proper time, one day
is worth three.
La Rouchefoucauld: We condemn
vice and exto1 virtue merely through
interest.
Emile Souvestre: Work furnishes
bread for every day, but it is gayety
that gives it SAVIOR.
Tennyson: There lives more faith
in honest doubt, believe me, than in
half the creeds.
La Bruyere: The most delicate of all
pleasure consists in promoting the
pleasure of others.
Lucretius: Not he is profane who
rejects the gods 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 will
have friends. Make enemies and you
will have enemies.
White: A little learning is not dam
gerous thing to one who does not mis-
take it for a great deal.
Carlyle: A speedy end to supersti-
tion-a gentle one, if you can contrive
it, but any way an end.
Sophocles: Reason, my father, by
the gods is given to man-the noblest
treasure we can boast.
Jerome: If an offense come out of
truth, better it is that the offense come
than the truth be concealed.
DR.. Johnson: The truly strong and
sound mind is the mind that can en-
brace equally great things and small.
Taci;us: Truth is brought to light
by time and reflection, while falsehood
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: am in that place in
| which it is demanded of me to speak
| the truth, and the truth | will speak,
| impugn whom it lists.
Cicero: Whether the soul be air Or
| fire | kaoY not, nor am [ ashamed, as
some men are. in cases where l am ~
1orant. to own that am so.
| Muller: Before all things we must
not allow ourselves to be pursualed
that, for the discovery of truth, blind
crs are more useful than spectacles.
! Montague. 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.
| e. ID. Sienker: To succeed in the
world it is much more necessary to
| possess the penetration to discover
| who is fool than to discover who is a
| clever man.
Tillotson: 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.
II. Rogers: Investigation frequently
| leads to doubt, where there was none
before. So much the !,etter. If the
thing is not true, inquiry can do no
passible harm.
H. Rogers: Truth At the bottom of
n sr we'll is of aboat as much use as
water there, and is of very little use
without some appliances to bring it to
the lips of the thirsty.
Robert Hail: Wisdom and truth, the
offspring OF the sky, are immortal; but
cunning and deception, the meteors of
the earth, after gIittering for mo-
| ment, must pass away.