The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-03-09
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My library was dukedom large enough
Shakespeare.
A laugh is worth hundred groans in
any market.-Lamb.
Poetry comes nearer to vital truth
than history.-Plato.
Humidity is the solid foundation Of
all the virtues.-Confucius.
To look back at antiquity is one thing.
to go back to it another.-Colton.
Never was the voice of conscience
silenced without retribution.-Mrs
Jameson.
Cicero was not so eloquent as thou,
thou nameless column with the buried
base.-Byron.
My whole philosophy, which is very
real, teaches acquiescence and optim-
ism.-Emerson.
/ never was ruined but twice-once
when gained a lawsuit, and when lost
one.-Voltaire.
No entertainment is SO cheap as read
ing, nor any pleasure SO lasting.-Lady
M. W. Montague.
Predominant opinions are generally
the opinions of the generation that is
vanishing.-Disraeli
We somtimes meet an original gentle>
man who, if manners had not existed,
would have invented them.-Emerson
The effective public speaker receives
from his audience in vapor what he
pours back on them in flood.-Glad>
stone.
No human being can come into this
world without increasing or diminishing
the sum total of hnman happiness
Elihu Burritt.
The darkest hour in the history of
any young man is when he sits down to
study how to get money without hon
estly earning it-Horace Greeley.
You must nurse your own flowers if
you would have them flourish, unless
you happen to have gardener who is as
fond of them as yourself.-Southey
1t is the Gu rse of service that prefer
ment goes by letter and affection, not
by the old graduation where each second
stood heir to the first.-Shakspeare.
The world is full of poetry. The air is
living with it's spirit, and the waves dance
to the music of it's melodies and sparkle
in its rightness.-Percival.
One telling Socrates that such an one
was nothing improved by his travels
81 very well believe it," said he, "for, he
took himself along with him. Mon
taigue.
He that is proud eats up himself; pride
is his glass, his trumpet, his cronicle; and
whatever praises itself but in the deed,
devours the deed in the praise-Shak-
speare.
Stiffness of person and steadiness of
features are signal marks of good breed
ing Vulgar persons can't sit still, or, at
least, they must work their limbs or
features.-O. W. Holmes
Many men do not allow their princi
Piles to take root, but pull them up every
now and then, as children do the flow
neutrality-suspicious..
There is something among men more
capable of shaking despotic power than
lightning, whirlwind or earthquake; that
is, the threatened indignation of the
whole civilized world-Daniel Webster.
Great works are performed, not by
strength, but by perseverance. He that
shall walk, with vigor three hours a
day, will pass, in seven years. space
equal to the circumference of the Globe.
johnson.
If you tell your troubles to God, you
put them into the grave; they will never
rise again when you have committed
them to him. If you roll your burden
anywhere else, it will roll back again,
like the stone of Sisyphus.-Spurgeon
Repentance hath q purifying power.
and every tear is of cleansing virtue;
but these penitential clouds must be
still kept dropping; one shower will not
suffice; for repentance is not single ac>
ton, but a course.-South.
Troubles are usually the brooms and
shoyels that smooth the road to good
mans fortunes; and many man curses
the rain that falleth upon his head, and
knows not that it brings abundance to
drive away hunger.-Basil.
Promptitude is not only duty, but is
also part of good manners; it is favora-
BILE to fortune, reputation, influence and |
unless; a little attention and energy will |
form the habit, so as to make it easy and
delightfully."-. Simmons.
The wonders of geology exercise every
faculty OF the mind-reason, memory,
imagination; and, though we can not
put our fossils to the question, it is some
thing to be SO aroused as to be made to
put the questions to be ones self.-Hugh
Miller.
Sceince corrects the old creeds sweeps
away, with every new perception, our
infantilie chatechisms, and necessitaties
a faith commensurate with the grander
orbits and universal laws which it dis
clOses.-Emerson.
How can finite grasp infinity.-Dryden.
If you can not avoid quarre! with
BLACKBOARD, let your lawyer manage it
rather than yourself No man sweeps
his own chimney, but employs chim>
ney~sweeper, who has no objection to
dirty work, because it is his trade
Cotton.
Statutes are mere mile Stones telling
how far yesterdays thought had taveled;
and the talk of the sidewalk to-day is
the law of the land. With us law is
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