The San Antonio light. (San Antonio, Tex.) 1883-1886, 1883-04-23
MAN.
What Poets and Other Eminent Writers
Have said of Him.

What Poets and other Eminent writers
Have Said of Him.
Man passes away; his name perishes from
record and recollection; his history is as a
tale that is told, ard his very monument be-
comes a ruin. Washington irving.
To understand man, however, we most
look beyond the individual man, and his ac-
tons or interests, and view him in combins-
ton with his fellow.-Carlyle.
Man is his own star, and that soul that can
be honest is the only perfect man.-Beaumont
aud Fletcher.
The scientific study of man is the most
difficult Of all branches Of knowledge.-Olver
Wendell Holmse.
The man of wisdom is the man of years
Young.
Man, whose heaven-erected face
The smiles OF love adorn,
Mans inhumanity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn.
Burns.
Stood I, o nature, man alone In thee,
Then were it worth ones while a man to
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.
The creation of thousand forests, is in one
acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul,
Britain, America lie folded already in the FIRST
man.-Emerson.
Such is man. In great affection he is ele-
waited by the first minute in great happiness,
the most distant, sad one, even while yet be.
meath the horizon, casts him down.-Rich-
ter.
What piece Of work is man How noble
in reason How infinite in faculty, in form,
and moving, how express and admirable in
action, how like an angel In apprehension,
how like god the beauty OF the world. the
paragon of animals And yet, to me, what is
this quintessence of dust f-Shakespeare.
When faith is lost, when honor dies
Then man is dead. Whittier.
Reading maketh full man; conference 4
ready man; and writing an exact man.
Bacon.
A man that is temperate, generous, valiant,
chaste, faithful and honest, may, at the same
time have, wit, humor, good breeding,
mirth and gslantry; while he exerts these lat
ter qualities, 40 occasions might be invented
to show he is master Of the other nobler vir-
| tues.-Steele.
God, when heaven and earth He did create,
Formed man, who should OF both participate.
Sir j. Denham.
Men are but children of larger growth,
Our appettes are apt to change as theirs,
And full as craving, too, and full as vain.
Dryden.
Consider, man weigh well thy frame;
The king, the beggar, are the same.
Dust formed us all. Each breathes his day,
Then sinks into his native clay. Gay.
NObler birth
OF creatures inanimute with gradual life,
Otgrowth sense, reason, all summed up In man.
Milton.
The proverbial wisdom of the populace at
gates, on roads, and in markets, instructs the
attentive ear of him who studies man more
fully than a thousand rules ostentatously
arranged.
Man, though individually confined to mar
row spot OF this globe, and limited in his
existence, few courses OF the sun, has never
theess an imagination which no despotism
can control, and which increasingly seeks for
the author OF his destiny through the immen-
| sity Of space and the ever-rolling current o.
| ages.-Colton.
A Miser Makes Contract for His Comu.
From the Auburn Dispatch.
A story is told of misery old resident Of
this city to the effect that several years ago he
made a contract for his burial. The job was
| a cheap one, coffin. attendance and all not 10
| exceed $50. The coffin was made OF pine,
and was kept in the undertaker's shop until
he went out of business, when it was removed
| to his house and kept against the time when
| the miser should die. The undertaken has
| some time since fallen in the battle of life.
| Since his death tenant has occupied his late
home, and as he objected TO the presence of
the somber reminder OF the uncertainty of hui
man life--the coffin-the misery individual
| had tn hnuaa nd ko. :.