The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-10-09
GEMS OF THOUGHT.

Persian Proverb: The heart is the only
thing that is better by being broken
@@Anon: 1t is more shameful to distrust
ones friends than to be deceived by them.
Emile Souyestro: Good company and
good conversation are the very sinGws OF
virtue.
Charles Dudley Warner Next to an eff
Terminate man there is nothing so dsagrooa-
BILE as a manish woman.
George Eliot: When death, the great
roconciler, has come, il is is never our ten
dcrncss we repent of, but our.seyerity.
Franklin lie that once did you kind
ness will he more ready To do you another
than he whom YOU yourself have obliged.
Rocheloucauld True bravery is shown
by performing without witness what one
might be capable of doing before all the
world.
kinslcy What can man do more than
die for his Countrymen? Live for them it
is a longer work, and therefore a more dini-
cult and noble one
Dante: Behold the savage beast with
the pointed tail that passes mountains and
breaks through walls and weapons" Thus
began my guide to speak To me, and the nm
clearly image of Fraud came forward.
Emerson: Conversation fills all gaps
supplies all deficiencies, What q good trait
is that recorded of Madame de Maintcnon
that during dinner, the servant whispered
at her side, Please, madame, one anecdOte
more, for there is.nu roast to-day"
Anon: One cannot help seeing that the
sense of live beauty is blessing; that the
ideal is forever the real; the only live thing
in the universe of mind and matter. Once
the truth is understood, the bonds of tyr.
amy are but rotten witness; methods are
but incidents.
Bulwcr: OF all the weaknesses which
little men rail at, there il none that they
are more apt to rail at than tendency to
believe. And of all the things of corrupt
heart and feeble head, the tendency To in
Credulity is the Surest. Real !iilosophy
seeks rather to solve ''aa 10 deny.
Plato: o beloved Paul. aud all We other
gods of this place, grant me to become
beautiful in the inner man, and that what
ever outward things ! may be at peace with
those within. May deem the wise man
rich, and may ! have such u portion of gold
Us none but a prudent man can either bear
or employ.
George Eliot; There is no hopelcssness
sad rs that of early youth when the soul (,
made up of wants, and has no long memo.
rics, no Superaddcd life In thcli'e OF Others.
though we who look out think lightly of
such premature despair, as IL our vision of
the future lighted the blind sufferer
present.
Gothic; He who wishes tn cycrt n
useful influence must ho careful tn insuli
nothing, Let him not be troubled bv what
seems absurd, but let him conserratc His
energies to the creation Of what il good
He mus not dcmoiSh, but build. He
must raise temples where mankind NAV
come and portakc OF the present pleasure.
ThacLoray; 1t is only very few who
weep for sheer affection When you think
that tho eycs " your childhood driod ~ the
sight of . piece of gingerbread, and that
plum cake was aeompcn ation for the agony
0rpurtinE With your mamma aud Sisters
o, my friend and brother, you nesd not no
too sure Of your own fine feelings
Anon; The work Of destruction 4. just As
necessary as the work Ut construction, We
must expose the false, IN order 10 establish
the true We must tear down the old aud
useless that We may build up thS uou aud
useful. We must remove from tAo ground
the rubbish u, superstition, that W. may
erect IN its place the temple VI siOncd.
Johnson All the other power, oClitsra.
turc are COY and naughty; they must ho
long cuurtsd and as last nra not always
gained hut criticism Is goddess easy Ol
gcce.s and forward VI advaute-shu will
meet the slow aud encourage the timur1u,.
The want ui meaning she will supply With
words, and ,ae want of spirit .hs supplies
with m!jguiiy,