Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1883-11-08

Bernhard Gotta: Our ancestors may
be n great honor to us but IL is much bet
ter If we are an honor to them.
Emerson: The flower of civilization is
the finished man, the man Of sense, of ac-
complishment, of social power the gen.
tleman.
Randolph:
All men are more eloquent than women made;
But women are more powerful TO persuade.
Shelley: 1t is ever n proof that the
falsehood of proposition is felt by those
who use coercion, not reasoning, TO pro-
cure its admission.
Beaconsfeld: II n nation he led 10 aim
at the good and great, whatever he its
form, the government will respond TO its
convictions and its sentiments.
Bobart:
Viewsfrom thy hand no worthy action done.
Z. s. Phelps The level we strike in
the soul that touches us most nearly is al
most surely to be the high-water mark Of
our own.
Hugo: Nature is pitiless; she never
withdraws her flowers. her music. her Joy
BUSINESS, and her sunlight from before In
man cruelty and suffering.
Anon:
Old age is not a friend wish to meet;
And IL some day 10 see me he should come
I'd lock the door as he walked up the street.
And cry, ."Most honorcd sir, I'm not at
homer
George Eliot: Things don't happen he.
cause they're bad or good, else all the
eggs would be added or none at all, and
It the most it is but six to the dozen.
Anon: A man can no more penetrate or
understand the mysteries Of female fash
ons than he can know what the ladies'
talk about when they go upstairs after
Inner.
Anon.
The years have Innings just as goblets do
The old year is the lining OF the new
Filled with the wine of precious memories,
The golden Was doth line the silver Is.
Emerson: Poetry is the perpetual en-
leavor to express the spirit of the thing,
20 pass the brute body, and search the
life and reason which causes il to exist.
Irving: One must feel intellectually
secure before he can venture to dress
stability; no one but genius or great
scholar dares TO be dirty.
Jean Ingelow: They are poor who have
lost nothing; they are poorer far, who, los
ing, have forgotten; they most poor of all
who lose and wish they might forget.
Emcrson
Two things thou shalt not not long for, IL thou
love mind serene:
Awoman 10 thy wife, though she were crown
And the second, borrowed money-though the
smiling lender say
He will not demand the debt until the Julg-
mcnt Day
Giles: When one thoughtfully consid-
ers the part that love has in the destiny
Oh aaAn - 4l.. tl,..t
come out of it for her veal or misery, her
ruin or perfection; nothing is more pa
thetic, and death is not more solemn.
Ouida: With u vacillating man never
had any patience. If Esau chose TO lie
foolish and sell his birthiight. l like him
to do il with dash, and spirit and will
of his own, not to stand -shallying
between the two, laundering after one, yet
wondering whether the other is not bet
ter.
Bailey:
We live in deeds, no, years; In thoughts, not
In feeling. not in figures on dial.
We should count time by hear;-,hrobs. lie
lives most
Who thinks most, feels the noblcst, acts the
best.
Holiness: A woman that gets hold of
bit of manhood is like one Of those Chi
nesc wood-carvers who work on any odd,
fantastic root that comes to hand. / should
like to see any kind of man distinguish
able from q gorilla, that some good and
even pretty woman, could not shape
husband out Of.
The orcharls-lands OF Long Ago,
q drowsy W nds awake and blow
The snowy blossoms back to me,
And ali the buds that used tobc!
How back along the grassy ways
OF triIart feet, and lie the huZc
OF h"ppy summer from the trees
Thai ira their trcsscs In the seas
OF sr IA IA Il u and overflow
Thc urchar!-dni- Of Long Agol