Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-04-19

hurts.
There are no eys so sharp as the eyes Of
hatred.
Who seeks faultless friend, es.s
friendless.
To pity distress is human; to relieve ii
is God-like.
Justice is exalted, strengthened and
honored by the judicious praise OF merit.
Has man right to throw away his
own happiness any more than that %
another:
People who can patiently bear all their
small trials will never break down unee ct
their great ones.
The only vice that can not be forgiven
Is hypocrisy. The repentance Of a hypo.
critic is itself hypocrisy.
Every man is a missionary now and
forever, for good or for evil, whether he
intends or designs it or not
When a man is cornered he fancies thas
the community has one great ear for lis
especial accommodation.
Every new discovery in science yields
its contribution to the proofs and illus
trations Of the wisdom, power, and good.
ness of God.
Next to moral weakness, q fear OF dif.
1 hculties To be met is undoubtedly / o
most unfortunate mental trait of any
young person.
Putting your enemy in the wrong in
the sight of men is the worst kind of de-
feat, against which neither individual
nor nation can long persist.
There Is considerable incentive to calm
ness in the thought that though you are
humble and happy to-day you may be
famous and miserable tomorrow.
IL it 10 hard for man to bear his own
poor luck, it is harder still for his friends
to bear it for him, and but few Of them
ordinarily can stand that trial.
Books give the same turn to our
thoughts that company does to our con.
versation, without loading our memories
or making us even sensible Of the change.
Each day, each week, each month,
each year, is a new chance given us by
God. A new chance, new leaf, new
life. This the golden, the unspeakable
gift which each new day offers to you.
God suffers no mortal disease to go
without cure. The fault is ours if we
10 not find it. The law of the soul and
OF the universe is one law. Antidotes
grow beside the poisons in the moral
world, always.
The great moments of life are but mo.
;nents like the other. Your doom is
spoken in word or two. A single look
from the eyes, mere pressure of the
aand may decide it; or of the lips,
though they can not speak.
Society is advancing IN proportion as
human nature is respected. 1t is the
.nisery Of the present state that man, as
man, is counted of so little worth. A
just estimate of human nature, of its
purposes, powers, destiny, leading to gen.
eral courtesy, respect, and effort for the
Advancement of this nature in each and
all-this is the measure of the progress of
society.
Mans great actions are performed in
minor struggles. There are obstinate aud
unknown heroes who defend themselves
inch by inch in the shadows against the
fatal invasion Of want and turpitude.
They are noble and mysterious triumphs
which no eye sees, no renown rewards,
and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life,
misfortune. isolation, abandonment aud
poverty are battle fields which have their
heroes.
Perhaps nothing so greatly tends to
Just thinking as the practice Of suspend
ing the judgement until we have full
means Of testing it. This is often an irk-
I Aaa -
suspense is so disagreeable 10 many per.
sons that, to avoid it they will hastily
make up their minds on mooted points,
imagining that thus they have forever
settled the matter. Opinions thus formed
have no value and can carry no weight.
When q man allows his friendship for
another man to become tinctured with
iistrust, it is seldom that he can entirely
conceal his feelings. His friend gener.
ally discovers it, and with masculine
strategy goes bluntly and directly to the
root OF the matter, which is thereupon
settled one way or the other. But, when
distrust enters into woman's friendship,
the combination is so elusive and puzzl.
ing that the ordinary man can not com.
bat it. He does not know how to de-
fend himself because he does not know
where his adversary il.
To have brought boy to have enter.
tainment from book is to have done a
great thing, says Doctor johnson. And
whoever has had the training of young
folk, especially of youths who did not
naturally take kindly to reading. is likely
to agree with him. Certainly the most
essential and often the most difficult part
of boys education is just this point
OF teaching to care for reading. Once
this is done the hardest of the battle is
over. 1t is careless or dull parent who
can not do much for . boys mind *
once he has got him to be fond Of read
ing. 1t is after that q question Of guild.
ance; and, il they are not driven, there
Is little that can not be done in the way
Of guidance when one is training BOYS.
Hunger and ill-tsmper are convertible
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