Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1885-07-30
ULEyELANDlANA.
Gathered at Random From Miss Rose Eliza
beth Cleyehnd's New Book.

Gathered at Random From Miss Rose EllZa-
beth Cleyehnd's New Book.
No secret of hydraulics could cause
n dewdrop to hang upon a rose leaf in
cube.
never knew good man or good
woman who was not practically an op.
timist
The past is simply humanity. 1t is
thou and |, vast congregation OF
thouS and rs.
An acorn in the mind is worth more
than an oak forest at the end of the
tongue.
The noble soul would choose rather
not to be than to be somebody in
particular.
So fine an irony has history, that
that which makes the shame of its
wives makes the glory of its kings.
Manners are made in the market
where they are sold, and their buy
ing and selling are mostly uncon-
sCiOus.
No gift can pass between human
creatures so divine as the gift of rec
ognition, for it touches upon the Gre
ative.
To be dramatic, and at the same
time accurate, is n rare combination.
If the one is gift the other is grace.
We can do no bravcr or better thing
than to bring our best thoughts to the
everyday market. They will yield us
usurious interest.
Milton's sublime audacity of faith
acretes the pondcrous craft Of his
verse and keeps it from sinking into
the abyss Of theological pcdantry.
Our lives are rot laid out in vast,
vague prairies, but in definite do
mcStic door yards, within which we
are to exercise and dcvclopo our facul-
ties.
Herein is the significance Of saying
that history repeats itself 1t does re-
peat itself. because ii repeats its fac
tOrs-thc men and women who COM
pose it.
The mother makes the man, per-
haps; but the wife manufactures HIM,
Sometimes the wife in her manufac-
turo confirms the making of the
mother, sometimes counteractsi IT,
The born poet has no agony in the
deIIverance of his song. The uttering
is to him that soothing balm which
the uttcrauce is to the reader II Is
the weeping, not the tear wept, that
gives relief.
The humanity of each of us is like
some Holian harp constructed by the
Master Musician, and laid down ten
dcrlv by Him on the sea shore, where
winds from every quarter play con-
tinuOusly.
Reciprocity, constant and equal,
among all His creatures is the plan of
the only maker OF plans whose plans
never fail in the least iot or little. He
has reserved to Himself the power to
give without receiving.
Human history is nothing but one
ceaScless flow OF cause into effect, and
of effect into cause. There is nothing
but which is consequent. You and |
arc but the conscquents Of vast
tonplo of autecedrnty in all time be-
fore,
Won oo,ro Iror, orcSEf Goorro
rI;oi's Moons ne from Turkisb ba1b
nI l,,osi srinncn and rc,incmont nm.
nraciativc nf hcpcrt bn so battered
Lao,on ,rJ Lisinint,J ~ ,o nnoJ no.
noso hcforc you cnn Ina cnnsrious of
Iofroshmant
:, -,
sand. when apnosticism rrars its stone
wall in front OF faith. and writes upon
il in black letters the end-oll and the
be.all of all knowing. the unknow-
able, we have no need to know where
God is to confirm our faith in him.
An erronoous notion of thc Middle
ACos : A tunnel of limo / OoO vcnrs
innr i'' ,hronrh which bum,nity
r,,mSbled hiinJIy in m cmicrant train
,hc lnst skyrockcts of t6c Roman
nmniro noring nm ot onc and tho
first sunbcams of the Renaissance
shining in at the other-and no light
bctween-thc no-account period of
history.
Wbat's in nomep rose hv any
otbor mama might small os swcoi. hnt
ill.,. if rccl sistoncJ rosc would
noyoI dirusc The rosc,s odor nor goin
in oddi,inn to lie nwn ,nntloss nor
factions tLo dccn hearted sorrcry of
tbot oncbontinr rrnmnIod wondor
which wa thr,li in tomching ne If n
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