The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-07-06
MULTUM IN PARVO.

MULTUM IN PARVO.
Words are but pictures of our thoughts.
Dryden.
If wrong our hearts, our heads are
right in vain.-Young.
A fig for your bill of fare; show me
your bill of ompany.-Swift.
To give pain is the tyranny; to make
happy, the true empire of beauty
Steele.
He is the freeman whom the truth
makes free, and all are slaves beside
Cowper.
Choose rather to punish your appetites
than to be punished by them.-Tyrius
Maximus.
Be still prepared for death. and death
or life shall thereby be the sweeter.-
Shakespeare.
A prosperity to hope and joy is real
riches: one to fear and sorrow, real pOv>
erty.-Hume.
Vast chasms can be filled, but the
heart of man can never be satisfied
Chinese Proverb
Women is like the reed which bends
in every breeze. but breaks not in tt e
tempest. -WhateIy.
Our prayer should be for blessings in
general, for God knows best what is
good for Missionaries.
Government is not mere advice; it is
authority with power to enforce the law.
Washington.
Make but few explanations. The char
acter that can not defend itself is not
worth vindicating.-F. W. Robertson.
Few persons have sufficient wisdom to
prefer censure which is useful to praise
which deceives -ROchefoucauld.
Let us hope that science, commerce
and labor will flourish; for the shedding
of blood is thankless business.-Bis-
marck.
What are the aims which are at the
same time duties? They are the perfect
ing of ourselves and the happiness of
others.-Kant.
Great numbers of moderately good
people think it fine to talk scandal: they
regard it as a sort of evidence of their
own goodness-F w. Faber
Education does not mean teaching
people to know; it means teaching them
to behave DIS they do not behave.-Rus>
kin.
Envy's memory is nothing but a row
of hooks to hang up grudges on. Some
peoples sensibIity is mere bundle Of
averson.-John Foster.
Excess of every kind destroys that con
stitution which temperance would pre-
serve. The debauchee offers up his body
as living sacrifice to sin.-Colton.
The abolition of domestic slavery is
the great object of desire in these colo
MES, where it was unhappily introduced
in their infant state.-Thomas jefferson
1t is doing some service to humanity
to amuse innocently They know but
little of society who think we can beai
to be always employed, either in duties
or menditation, without reiaxation.--H
More.
We can not live only for ourselves. A
thousand fibers connect us with our fel>
low-men; and along those fibers. as sym
pathetic threads, our action run as cause.
and they come back to us as Effects
Melville.
An hours industry will do more to
produce cheerfulness, suppress evil hui
mors and retrieve ones affairs than a
months moaning. It's sweetens enjoy
ments and seasons our attachments
with delightful relish.-Barrow.
When we have practiced good actions
awhile they become easy; when they are
easy we take pleasure in them; and then
by frequency of act, they grow into a
habit.-Tillotson.
potism. The possessors of rude health
The characters never strained by doubf
-slia minds that no Questions disturb
and no Aspirations put u1t of breath
there rhe strong .re also The Iyrants.--
Gasparin
An actor should taAs lessons from the
painter and the scvlptor. Not only
should he make attitude his study, but
he should highly develop his mind by
an assiduous study of the best writers,
ancient and modern, which will enable
him not only to understand his parts
but to communicate nobler coloring to
his manners and mien.-Goethe.
Whenever vanity and gayety, love
of pomp and dress. furniture, equipage,
buildings, great company, expensive di-
versions and elegant entertainments get
the better of the principles and judg
ments Of men and women there is no
knowing where they will stop nor into
what evils, natural, moral or political,
they will lead us.-John Adams.
That fine part of our constitution, the
eye, seems as much the receptacle and
seat of your passions. appetites and in
clinations as the mind itself; at least it is
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