The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-08-24
MULTUM IN PARVO.

Fear is rot lasting teacher of duty
Old Proverb.
poor. Middleton.
The beautiful is seer with the eye Of
the soul.-Jouhestt. -
p Nothing is more terrible than ignor
ance in action.-Goethe.
He who purposely cheats his friend
would cheat his God.-Lavater.
Man submits upon the air more than
upon his meat and drink.-Thackeray
1 hold that gentleman to be the best
dressed whose dress no one Observes
A. Trollope.
Talk what you will of taste, you will
find two of face as soon as two OF
mind.-Pope.
Children are excellent physiognomists
and soon discover their real friends
Sidney Smith.
To be prepared for war is one of the
most efTectual means of preserving peace.
Washington.
Borrowed garments never keep one
warm. Nor can one get struggled goods
safely into kindgom GOMEZ. r. Low
ell,
To affirm that vicious man is only his
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that virtuous man is only his own
Triend.-Colton.
Every man has paradise around him
until he sins, and the angel of an accus-
ing conscience drives him from his Eden.
-Longfellow.
1t may pass for a maxim in State that
the administration can not be placed in
too few hands, nor the legislation in too
many.-Swift.
1t must be an industrious youth that
provides against age, he that fools away
the one must either beg or starve in the
other.-Estrange.
Gravity must be natural and simple;
there must be urbanity and tenderness
in it. A man must not formalize on ev-
erything.-Cecil.
am apt to think that men find their
simple ideas agree, though in discourse
they confound one another with differ
ent names.-Locke.
have often thought what melancholy
world this would be without children,
and what an inhuman world without
the aged.-Coleridge
Some of our weaknesses are born in us
others are the result of education, it is a
question which of the two gives us most
troubIe-Goethe.
The heart is small thing, but desireth
great matters. 1t is not sufficient for a
kites dinner, yet the whole world is not
sufficient for t.-Quarles.
Life lis series of surprises. We do
not guess to-day the mood, the pleasure,
he power of tomorrow, when we are
building up our being.-Emerson.
IT'S beauty that often makes women
proud tbs virtue that doth make them
most admired;' tbs modesty that makes
them seem divine.-Shakespear
Great vices are the proper objects OF
orr detestation and smaller faults of our
pity, but affection appears to be the
only true source of the ridiculous. Field
ing.
Leave what to do, and what to spare
to the inspiring moments care-nor look
for payment-but just to wear unspot
ted raiment-J. r. Lowell, with auto
graph.
Tears hinder sorrow from becoming
despair and madness; and laughter is
one Of the very privileges of reason, being
confined to the human species.-Light
Hunt.
Charles H., hearing Vossius repeating
some incredible stories of the Chinese
turned to those about him and said
",rhis is very strange man; he believes
everything but theBible.'
There is the same difference between
the tongues of some as between the honl
= and the minute hand; one goes ten times
is fast, and the other signifies ten times
as much.-Sydney Smith.
A man with half volition goes back
ward and forward, and makes no way
on the smoothest road; man with a
whole volition advances Oh the rough
est and will reach his purpose if there be
even little wisdom in it.-CAClyle.
Adversely is like the period of the for
: mer and of the latter rain-cold. com
fortress, unfriendly to man and to an
ilnal; yet from that season have theil
birth the flower and the fruit, the date
the rose and the romegranate.-Wa
Scott.
The intellect has only one failing,
which, to be sure, is a very considerable
one-it has no conscience. Napoleon is
the readiest instance of this If his
heart had borne any proportion to his
brain he had been one of the greatest
lticl III OH hiotOi ~. AONCI.
For their learning to be liberal. Spare
no cost, for by such parsimony all is lost
that is saved; but let it be useful knows
edge, such as is cosistent with truth and
godliness, not cherishing vain contro-
version or idle mind; ingenuity mixed
with industry is good for the body and
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Deserving Praise.
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SaIve and Electric Bitters and have
never handled remedies that sell as well
or that have given such universal satis>
faction. We do not hesitate to gnaran
tee them every time, and we stand ready
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