Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1891-12-23
GRAINS OF GOLD.

Love is never lasting which flames be.
fore il burns.
Severity breedeth fear but roughness
breedeth hate.
Great works are performed not by
strength but by perseverance.
He best serves his party who best serves
his country. ry.-Abraham Lincoln.
We need not be much concerned about
those faults which we have the courage
to own
Joy descends gently like evening dew,
and does not patter down like hail
storm. Richter.
Slumber not in the tents of your faith
ers. The world IS advancing Advance
with it. - Mazzini.
Ws live In deeds. cot years: in thoughts. not
broaths.
In feelings. not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart throbs
-Festus.
Do not wait for extraordinary opportu-
mites for good actions, but make use of
common situations.
There is difference between what is
contrary to reason and what is superior
to it and out of its reach
1t is with youth as with plants; from
the first fruits they bear we learn what
may be expected in future.
There is nothing steadfast IN life but
our memories; we are sure of keeping
intact only that which we have lost
Act always SO that the immediate mo
tives Of thy will may become universal
rule for all intelligent beings. Kant
IL we had no failing sourselges we
should not take much pleasure in finding
out those of others. La RochefoucauId.
A memory without blot or contamina.
tion must be an exquisite treasure, an in
exhaustible source of pure refreshment
He that thinketh good may do,
And God will help him thereuntO;
For never was good Vgork wrought
Without beginning OF good thought.
-Bunyau.
A taste for books is the pleasure and
glory of my life. Iwould not exchange
it for the glory of the Indies. Edward
Gibbon.
without enthusiasm, said Montalem-
bert, "your life will be blank, and sue
cess will never attend it. Enthusiasm is
the one secret Of success.
In most quarrels there is fault on
both sides. A quarrel may be compared
to spark, which can not be produced
without flint as well as steel
Pass through the little space Of time
conformable to Nature, and end the
journey ia content, just as an olive falls
of when it is ripe, blessing Nature, that
produced it, and thanking the tree on
which it grew, Marcus Aurelius.
He who sows and reaps is a good Ia.
borer, and werthy of his hire. But ne
who sows what shall be reaped by Others.
who know not and seek not of the sower,
is Iaborer of nobler order, and worthy
Of loftier guerdon w. T. Greig.
10 do simply what we ought is higher,
disiner, and more creative than to write
the grandest poem, paint the most beau.
tiful picture. build the most worshipfuI
temple. or dream out the most enehant-
ing, melodious composition. - George
Macdonald.
Great men stand like solitary towers in
the city of God, and secret passages run
ming deep beneath external nature give
their thoughts intercourse with higher
intelligences. which strengthens and con.
soles them aud of which tla laborers on
the surface do not even dream.-Kaya.
nagh.
Fsithfulness in the humblest part
1s better at least than proud success:
And patience and love In q ehastened heart
Are pearls more precious than happiness;
And in that morning when we shall wake
To the springtime freshness OF youth again,
All troubles will seem but flying fake.
And lifelong sorrow a breath on The pane.
j. Il. TroNbfidge.