Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1883-11-13
Gems From Chas. Kingsley.

acknowledge and love are reciprocal.
He who loves knows. He who knows
loves.
Second thoughts may be best before &C
tion-they are folly after action, unless we
find we have sinned.
Aim at depth. A thought is deep in pro-
portion as it is near God.
Habits are a series of individual volun-
tary actions, continued till they become in
voluntary.
The quantity of sounding nonsense in
the world is incredible. If you wish to be
like little child, study what little child
could understand-nature and do what
little child could do-love.
Let us never, never be afraid of changing
our opinion our knowledge.
That is form of pride which haunts the
more powerful minds; the unwillingness to
&C back from ones declared opinion, but it
is not found in great child-Iike geniuses.
Better believe in ghosts with no heads
and Jack boots on than believe in nothing
but self.
One must feel for ones fellows-so much
better, two out of three of them, than one S
SELF though they will fill themselves with
the east wind, and be proportionably dyspep'
tic, and sulky.
1t is a pity that telling people what's
right won't make them do it; but not
new fact, though the world has quite for
COTTON it, and assures you that the dear,
sweet incompris mankind only wants to be
told the way to the millennium to walk
willingly into (which is lie.
Life is too hard work in itself to let one
stop to hate and suspect people.
There are two freedoms-the false,
where man is free to do what he likes
the true, when man IS free to do what he
ought.
Let us say little, and work the more
We shall be the more respected, and the
more feared too for it. People will begin
to believe that we really know what we
want and really do intend to get it, and
really believe in its righteousness.
Success at first is dangerous, and defeat
IN excellent medicine for testing peoples
honesty-for setting them earnestly to work
to see what they are and what are the best
methods of attaining it.
We Can never see how much evil there is
around us, til we see how much good
here is around US, just as it is light which
makes US, by contrast, aware OF darkness
Let us make beginning by knowing one
| little thing well and getting reused as tc
what else is to be known.
Surely the wisest. the hun1hlest path, il
| o give men credit for as much wisdom and
| ightness as possible, and to believe when
pne is found fault with, one is probably III
he wrong.
Remember he who says, 4 will. be happy
| some day. never will be happy.
One man walks through the world wi b
MS eyes open. and another with them shut
and upon this difference depends all the
superiority of knowledge which one acquires
over the other.
What we want to make US true men, over
! and above that which we bring into the
world with us, is some sort Of God given
instinct, motive, and new principle of life
in us which shall make us not only see the
right. and the true, and the noble, but love
md give up our wills and hearts to it and
| ind in the confession Of our new weakness
l strength in the subject of our own will 4
reedom, in the utter carelessness about
| self self-respect such as we have never
known before