The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1891-06-18

the means," and Dean Swift said
BREAD is the staff of life.'' George
Farquhar first discovered that sNeces-
| sity is the mother of invention" and
sang "Over the hills and far away"
Edward Young said "Death loves a
shining mark, ""A fool at forty is
fool indeed" and declared that ''Man
wants but little, nor that little long,"
an opinion, by the way, in which Oil
yer Goldsmith afterward agreed. It
was also Young who apostrophized
"balmy sleep" as ''tired natures sweet
restorer." It was Pope who averred
that can honest mans the noblest
work of God," that "Whatever is, is
right, that "To err is human, to for
give divine" and speaks of "a feast of
reason and flow of SOUL"
Thompson found something "Cruel
as death and greedy as the grave"
and tells us that Beauty when una
dorned is adorned the most.
John Gay said, "While there's life
there is hope" Lawrence Sterne said
that "God tempers the wind to the
shorn lamb" Grav was of the opin-
ion that "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis
| folly to be wise." He also asserts the
possible existence of such paradox
as a "Mute inglorious Milton" and
says that "full many flower is born
to blush unseen and waste its sweet
ness on the desert air."
Campbell said, Coming events cast
their shadows before" Distance lends
enchantment to the view," and speaks
of "Angel's visits few and far be-
tween"-though Robert Blair, fifty
years before, had written "In visits
like those angels, short and far be-
tween, "and Norris of Bemerton had
used the identical similie before either
declaring that the most exquisite
pleasures are "Like angels visits,
short and bright" Except for it's al
literative melody Campbell's line has
nothing to commend it over the
others.
"Just enough of learning to mis-
quote is from Byron, who also ap-
propriates for Menander, "Whom the
Gods love die young" and Drum
mond two centuries before had writ
ten," What excelleth but what dieth
young" and Shakespeare wrote, $50
wise, so young, they say do meier live
long" Byron also thought that
"Nothing dies but something mourns." ="
Enough is as good as a FEAST" thought
George Gascoigne in the sixteenth
century. Ralph Venning in the sew
enteenth century said, "Beauty's but
skin Deep" Theobold first said,
"None but thyself can be thy paral-
lel' though Massinger has similar
passage. Keats said, GA thing OF
beauty is % Joy forever" and poor
I Goldsmith whose extravaganza kept
him in always in debt, knew man
wno was passing rich with ego a
year.
Rochefoucauld said :"Hypocrisy is
the homage which vice pays to virtue"
1t was the first Napoleon who charac-
terized noisy family quarrel as
"washing dirty linen in public" The
milkmaid Perrette in Lafontaine's
fable made the mistake of counting
chickens before they were hatched," !"
though the substance of the fable is as
old as Esop.
The idea that Language was given
to conceal thoughts" is generally at
tributed to Talleyrand, but was really
spoken by Com pte de Montrand, "the
most agreeable scoundrel in the court
of Marie Antoinette" Voltaire and
Goldsmith both uttered the same SEN
timent.
Selden in the sixteenth century
said 'fOld friends are best" Sallust
said, Every man is the architect oil
his fortune" and Cicero spoke of an
"Illiad of woes" Washington Irving
coined "the almighty dollar"-thatis is
to say, the phrase.
But Shakespeare is the great coiner
of popular sayings. From him we
get "This is the long and the short oi
it" "The worlds mine oyster" As
merry as the day is long, ""A Daniel
come to Judgment" And thereby
hangs a tale" 1.-THE smallest worm
will turn when trodden on, Smooth
water runs where the brook is deep,
"The weakest goes to the wall, "Wt
have looked on better days." "fhis
was the most unkipdest cut of all,
"Stand net upon the order of your
going,n "a deed without name,
"Fraility, thy name is woman" m ore
siEned against than SHINING" "They
laugh hat win" and scores OF others