The Osceola times., 1883-07-07
EXTRACTS FROM EMERSON.
A Column Of Shining Stones Picked o

ATTckuibT masonry.
The man that works at home beb.
society at large with somewhat mors =
certainty than he who devotes himsoI,
to Notwithstanding.
The truest test of civilization ia ~.
the census, nor the size of cities. nor ,Ie I
uop-no, but the kind of man the corr e
try turns out-[Civilization. '
Every man is not so much workm,,
in the world az he is suggestion of tba.
he should be. Men walk as prophec;os
of the next age.-[Circles.
Every genuine work of art has as much
reason for being as the earth and tLs
sun. The gayest charm of beauty has =
root in the constitution of things.--TAr.
His tongue was framed TO music,
And his hand was armed with skin
His face wss the mold OF beauty
And his heart was the throne OF will
-tPower
The less government we have the hot.
ter-the fewer laws and the less confd.
ed power. The antidote 10 this abuse ~
formal government is the influence Of
private character, the growth Of the in.
idual.-[Politics.
No way has been found for making
heroism easy, even for the scholar. Ia.
Dor. iron labor, is for him. The world
was created as an audience for him the
atoms of which it is made are opportu.
nities.-[ Greatness.
Our efficiency depends so much upon
our concentration that nature usually, in
the instances where a marked man Is
sent into the world, overloads him with
bias, sacrificing his symmetry to his
working power.-lCulture.
The hand that rounded Peters dome
| And groined the aislcs Of Christian Rome.
| Wrote in a sad sincerity;
Himself from God he could not free;
He builded better than he knew,
The conscious store TO beauty grew.
1.-THE Problem.
1t never was in the power of any man
or any community to call the arts into
being. They come to serve his actual
wants. never to please his fancy. These
arts have their origin always IN some en-
thusiasm-as love, patriotism or religion.
-[Art.
The high prize of life the crowning
fortune of man, is to be born to some
pursuit which finds hin in employment
and happiness-whether it be to make
baskets or broadswords, or canals, or
statutes, or songs Consideration by
the Way.
For the World was built in order,
And the atoms march In tune;
Rhyme the pipe and, and lime me the the n warder
Orb and atom forth they pranee,
When they hear from far the rune.
i Monadnock
Our life is an apprenticeship to the
truth that around every circle another
can be drawn; that there is no end in
nature, but every end is a beginning
that there is always another dawn risen
on midnoon, and under every deep a
lower deep opens.-tCircles.
II only needs that just man should
walk in our streets TO make it appear
how pitifll and artificial contrivance
/ is our legislation. The man whose pan
, is taken, and who does not wait for So
cety in anything, has a power which
, society cannot but choose TO feel.-l New
England Reformers.
We owe debt to every great heart,
TO every fine genius to those who have
: put life and fortune on the cast of a net
, of Justice; to those who have added new
sciences to those who have refined life
by elegant pursuits 'Tis the fine souls
who serve us, and not what is called fine
society. Fine society is only self-pro-
lection against the vulgarities Of the
street and tavern.-[ Considerations by
the Way.
We do not believe there is any force
in to-day to rival or recreate that beau
tiful yesterday. We linger in the ruins
of the old tent, where once we had bread
and shelter and organs, nor believe that
the spirit can feed, cover and nerve us
again. We can not again find aught 50
dear, so sweet, so graceful. But We sit
and weep in vain. The voice of the Al
mighty saith; "Up and onward forever
more" We cannot stay amid the ruins,
-[Compensation.
Next to the originator of good SEN
tence is the first quoter of it. Many will
read the book before one thinks Of quot
ing passage. As soon as he has done
this, that line will be quoted east and
west Then there are great ways of Dor
rowing. Genius borrows nobly. When
Shakespeare is charged with debts to his
authors, Landor replies: "Yet he was
more original than his originals. He
breathed upon dead bodies and brought
them into lfe."-LQuotation and Origin
ality.
The law of the table is Beauty-a re-
spect to the common soul of all the guests
Everything is unreasonable which is
private TO two or three or any portion oil
the company. Tact never violates for
moment this law; never intrudes the or
ders of the house, the vices of the absen',
or tariff of expenses, or proiessiona,
privacies; as we say, never talk snoP
before company. Lovers abstain from
insults, whilst they sit in one parlor WIN
common friends.-[Social Aims.
wrote The past in characters
OF rock and fire the scroll,
The building in the coral sea,
The planting Of the coal.
And thefts from satellites and rings
And broken stars | drew,
And out Of spent and sged things
l formed the world anew.
-Isong of Mature
think Hans Anderson's story OF the
cobweb cloth woven so fine that it was
invisible-woven for the kings garment
must mean manners, which do really
clothe princely nature. Such one can
well 90 in n blanket, II he would. In the
gymnasium or on the sea beach his sa'
periority does not leave him. But nc
who has not this fine garment of behav.
lor is studious of dress, and then not less
OF house and furniture and pictures ano
gardens, in all which he hopes 70 ns
rdu, and not be exposed.-l Soca