The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-02-23
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What we know is but little; what we
do not know is immense.-La Place.
Even in war moral power is to physic- |
al as three parts out of four.-Napoleon. |
Though index learning turns no stu
dent pale, it holds the eel of science by
the tail-Pope.
Where there is much pretension, much
has been borrowed; nature never pre-
tends.-Lavater.
Wise men meier sit and wall their loss,
but cheerily seek how to redress their
harms. Shakespeare.
Nobody is exceedingly wicked all at
once. The devil is too cunning to star
tie men.-Bishop Wilson.
never knew any one interfere with
other peoples disputes but that he
heartily repented of it.-Lord Carlisle.
The temperate are the most truly lux
urious. By sustaining from most things
it is surprising how many things we en-
joy.-Simms.
He that defers his charity until he is
dead is, if man weighs it rightly, rath-
er liberal of another mans goods than
his own.-Bacon.
If God hath made this world SO fair,
where sin and death abound, how beau
tiful beyond compare will paradise be
found!-Montgomery
Physicians mend or end us; but though
in health we sheer, when sick we call
them to attend us, without the least
propensity to jeer.-Bryon.
The possibilities of existence run so
deeply into extravaganza that there is
scarcely any conception too extraordi>
nary for nature to realize.-Agassiz
Give bread to the stranger, in the
name of the universal brotherhood
common fatherhood of nature.-Quin
lillian.
Bad temper is it's own scourge. Few
things are more bitter than to feel bitter.
A mans venom poisons himself more
than his victim-Charles Buxton.
Style in painting is the same as in
writing-a power over materials, whethe
words or colors, by which conceptions o
sentiments are conveyed.-Sir Joshua
Reynolds.
Such is the turbulence of human pas
sions in party disputes, when victory
more than truth is contended for, that
the post of honor is the private station.
Washington.
War is honorable in those who do their
native rights MAINTAIN; in those whose
words an iron barrier are between the
lawless spoiler and the weak; but is in
those who draw the offensive blade fol
added power or gain, sordid and despica
BILE as meanest office of the worldly
churl-Joanna Bailie.
Literature is full of condolences, which
some love to believe are plagiarisms
There are thoughts always aboad in the
air which it takes more wit to avoid
than to hit upon.-O. w. Holemes.
Trust not any man with thy life, cred
it or estate. For it is mere folly for q
man to enthrall himself to his friend, as
though, occasion being offered, he might
not become an enemy.-Burleigh.
I could never drive myself from an.
man upon the difference of opinion, OF
be angry with his judgment for not a
greeting in that from which, within few
days, might dissent myself-Sir Thorn
as Browne.
Say anything for vice that you can
magnify any pleasures AS much as yor
please, but don't believe you have any
secret for sending on quicker the sluggish
blood, or for refreshing the faded nerve
Sydney Smith.
There be three parts of business: The
preparation; the debate of examination
and the perfection; whereof, if you lool
for dispatch let the middle only be th
work of many, and the first and last tn
wvrh -ef few.-Bacon.