The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-01-25
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PORTLAND DAILY PRESS.
BY II. c. CLABBY.

Since breyity is the soul of wit and tediousness
the limbs and outward fourishes, will be
BRIEF Shakespeare
Use the means aud God will give The blessing.
It's good to dread the worst, the best will be
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Burns DER the plough sung sweet his wood-notes
wild; and richest Shakespeare was a poor mans
child Elliott.
Sin hath broke the world sweet peace -unstrung
tn harmonious chords to which the angels
sung-Daad.
Children of wealth or want to each Is given one
spot Of gre sn and all the blue Of heaven.-O. W.
Holmes.
Religion is slave to no secttakes private road,
but looks through nature up to natures God.
Pope.
lt is the care of very great part of mankind to
conceal their indulgence from the rest.-John-
son.
Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good, a flower
that dies when first it gins to bud.-Shakes-
peare.
Every man. however humble his station or pub
lie his powers, exercises some influence on
those who are about him for good or for evil.
Fine thoughts are wealth. for the right use of
which men are, or ought to be, accountable
Bailey.
o wretched is the dame to whom the sound
"Your lord will soon return" DO pleasure brings.
-Mot,rins.
Reflect upon clear, unblotted, acquitted con-
science, and feed upon the ineffabe comforts of
the memorial of conquered temptation
South.
The idle, who are neither wise for this world or
the next, are emphatically fools at large
Tiltotson.
Ne who receives good turn should never forget
it; he who does one should never remember it,
-Chdrron.
Everywhere throughout all generations and ages
Of the christian world, no church ever perceived
the Word Of God to be against it.-Hooker.
Preposterous is the attempt to call our brethren
to an account for faults, which we encourage by
example.-South.
| Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the
| good we oft might win by fearing to attempt
Shakespeare
Resignation casts grave, but tranquil light over
| the prospects of even toilsome and troubled
| lfe.-Humboldt.
The weakness of social affection aud the strength
OF private desires constitute selfishness.-Co-
gan.
Love is life's end; an end but never ending; love
| is life's wealth ne'er spent but ever spending
| Spenser.
| a mans own good breeding Is the best security
| Nothing is so hard for those who abound in rich
| es, as to conceive how others can be In Want
SWjt.
Despotism can no more exist In nation until the
liberty Of the press is destroyed than the night
can happen before the sun is set.-Colton.
Derision is never so agonizing as when 1t pounces
on the wanderings Of misguided sensibility-
Lord Jeffrey.
All deception is nothing else but lie reduced 10
practice. and falsehood passing from words to
things.-South.
five will stand boggling at imaginary evils, lei
us never blame horse for starting at a shadow
L'Estrange.
life's evening We may rest assured, will take It's
character from the day which has preceded IT,
Shuttleworth.
Youth is not like new garment, which we car
keep FIRE h and fair by wearing spaiingly. while
we have it we must wear daily and 1t tciU veal
away.-Foster.
Perseverance wins each god-like act, and plucks
success e'en from the spear-proof crest OF rug
ged DANGER Harvard.
Revenge, pure and simple, does in no way restore
man towards the felicity which the injury did
interrupt,-Tdyior.
that Incidence is justly considered the mothe
of misery.-Burto1l.
SO far from being dishe artened at the sight o
hardships, we ought rather to rely more conf
4 IDENTITY upon God.-Burke.
Spiritual matters come not within the reach o
the sensual mans knowledge, he Judges Of hi
things Of God only as they accord with hi
worldly notions.-Boyle.