San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-03-04

'''C'J 'HVIc ISj mean real, au-
theme history. That certain
Kings reigned and certain battles
were fought we can depend on IA
true, but all the coloring. all the
philosophy Of history is connect.
ure.- johnson.
Peace does not dwell in ont.
ward things. but within the souI.
we may preserve it in the midst of
the bitterest pain, if our will re-
main firm and submissive. Peace
in this life 81 rings from acquies.
cence, not in an exemption from
suffering Fcnelon.
live in a constant endeavor to
fence against the niirmities of i'll.
health ami other evils of life bv
mirth. | am persuaded that every
time a man smileS--but much
more so when he laughs-it adds
something to this fragment OF life.
: Sterne.
One very common error mis-
leads the opinion of mankind,
that authority is pleasant and sub.
mission painful. In the general
course of human affairs the very
reverse of this is nearer the truth.
Command is anxiety; obedience is
ease Paley.
BY friendship you mean the
greatest love, the greatest useful.
ness, the most open communion.
ton, the nOhlest Sufferings, the
severeSt truth, the hearlieSt coun-
sci and the greatest union of
minds of which brave men and
women are capable Jeremy
Taylor.
Do not Judge from mere appear.
ances: for the light laughter that
bubbles on the lip often nantes
over the depths of sadness, and
the serious look may be the sober
veil that covers a divine peace
and JOY. The bosom can ache be-
meath diamond brooches, and
many a bllthe heart dances under
coarse WOOL &. II. Chaplin.
do not dislike extreme vivac-
ity in children, but we would see
enough of it to make an animated
character, when the violence of
animal spirits shall subside in
time. 1t is easier to restrain eX-
cess than quicken stupidity.
Gravity in childhood may become
stupidity in age Mrs. Sigour-
ney.
We all originally came from the
woods: it is hard to eradicate from
any of us the old taste for the
tattoo and the war paint; and the
moment that money gets into our
pockets it somehow or another
breaks out in ornaments on Ou/
person, without always giving re,
tnement to our Manners f. i
Whipple. =
As a general rule, people who
fagrantly pretend to anything are
the reverse of that which they
pretend to. a man who sets up
for a saint is sure to be a sinner,
and a man who boasts that he lisa
sinner is sure to have some feeble,
maudlin, sniveliug bit of saintshIp
about him which is enough TO
make him humbug. - BuIwer.
The fear of death often proves
mortal, and sets people Oh
methods to save their lives.
which infallibly aestIOys them.
This is a reflection made upon
observing that there are more
thousands killed in Il flight than
in battle, and may be applied to
hose multitudes of imaginary
sick persons that break their con.
stitutiOns by physic and throw
themselves into the arms of death
by endeavoring to escape it Adj
Olson.
Either we have an immortal
soul, or we have not. If we have
not, we are beasts; the first and
wisest of beasts it may be, but
still beasts. We only differ in
degree, and not in kind, just as
thr elephant differs from the slug.
But by the concession of the
meterIaliSts, We are not of the
same kind us beast; and this also
we say from cur own conscious.
ness. Therefore, methinks, it
must be the possession of soul
within us that makes the differ.
tnce.-I COleridge.
An obstinate man does not hold
opinions, hut they hold him: for
when ne is once possessed with
an error it is like devil,
only cast ont with great difficulty.
Whatsoever be lays hold on, like
a drowning man, he never loses.
though it do hut help to sink him
the sooner. His ignorance is alb
rupt and inaccessible. impregnable
both by art and nature, and will
hold out to the last, though it has
nothing but rubbish to defend
Butler.