Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-05-13

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fore it burns.
Time is the old justice that examines
al offenders.
Better three hours too soon than one
minute too late.
The man who has one talent and is inn
proving it will soon have ten.
In things of the mind we look for no
compulsion but that of light aud reason.
Ii is the care Of a great part of man
kind TO conceal their indulgence from
the rest.
Laboring toward distant aims sets the
mind in Higher key, and puts us at our
best.
A house is never perfectly furnished
for enjoyment unless there is child in it
rising three years old, and kitten rising
three weeks.
To know one person who Is positively
to be trusted will do more for mans
moral nature-yes. for his spiritual nat
ure-tlan all the sermons he has heard
or ever can hear
There is but one secret of contentment
and that is to take your present circum-
stances as boundary that for moment
can not be passed and remain quietly
within it,
Judge no man by his relations what
ever criticism you may pass upon his
companions. Relations, like features,
are thrust upon US; companions. like
clothes, are more OF less our own selec-
tons.
Before ! commit a sin il seems to me so
shallow that may wade through it dry
shod from any outlines, but when | have
committed it, it often seems so deep that
I can not escape without drowning.
The gospel is work OF love. Christ
ianity is only love realized under its purest
form: and since the light of the world
can not be known without an eye, love
can not be comprehended but by the
aeart.
We see young men who owe us new
world, so readily and lavishly they prom
ise, but they never scqut the debt; they
lie young and dodge the account; or, il
hey live, they lose themselves in the
crowd.
The privileges of to-day can not be en-
enjoyed nor the duties of to-day be dis.
charged tomorrow Tomorrow may
never come. If it does come it will bring
its own privileges and duties-priviIege
made less and duties made greater by to-
days neglect
One Of the greatest miseries is want OF
IA - IL n
front just and oft repeated demand and
to be without the means to satisfy it; to
deceive the confidence that has been
placed in you; to forfeit your credit; to
oe placed in the power Of another, and to
be indebted to his lenity; to stand con-
victed of having played the knave or the
fool, and to have no way left to escape
contempt but by mourning pity. The
sudden meeting of creditor whom you
have been trying to avoid for months and
whom you imagined was many miles
away skaters the nerves. There is but
one remedy for such trouble-avoid debt
1t is common to speak of deep things
and of shallow or trivial things, and to
guage people very much in accordance
with the degree of attachment they show
to one class or the other. We talk Of the
depths of philosophy and the superficial
ity of society, and we conclude that the
philosopher must be profound and the So
ciety man must be frivolous. Yet in
reality the distinction lies far more in
ourselves than in the affairs we engage in.
Everything has its surface and its depth,
and some people always dwell upon the
former, while others love to penetrate
into the latter. 1t is personal character
that is either deep or shallow, and that
will introduce one or the other element
into all the affairs of life.