The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-05-18
MULTUM IN PARVC.

Absence from those we love is self from
self-a deadly banishment.-Shake-
speare.
Oft expectation fails, and most oft
there where most it promises. Shake
speare.
The less man thinks or knows about
his virtues the better we like him.-Em-
erson.
There is no substitute. for thorough 60
ing, ardent and sincere earnestness.-
Dickens
To love to preach is one thing; to love
those to whom we preach, quite another.
Cell
Honorable industry always travels the
same road with enjoyment and duty
s. Smiles.
Poets are the mirrors of the gigantic
shadows which futurlty casts upon the
present.-Shelley.
The strokes of the pen need delibera-
ton as much as those of the sword need
swiftness.-Julia Ward Howe.
Every burden has two handles-one
smooth and easy to grasp, one rough and
hard to ho]d.-Old Proverb
From the body of one guilty deed a
thousand ghostly fears and haunting
thoughts proceed Wordsworth.
He that honors his neighbor on ac>
count of his money will in the end part
company with him in disgrace.-Tal>
mud.
The world is seldom what it seems. To
man who dilnly sees, realities appear as
dreams and dreams realities.-Moore.
Long customs are not easily broken; he
that attempts to change the course of his
life very often labors in vain.-JohnsOn.
Those who are formed to win general
admiration are seldom calculated to be-
stow individual happiness-.Lady Bic
sington.
The proper function of a government
is to make it easy for the people to do
good, and difficult for them to do evil
Gladstone.
Life is rather state of embryo pep
aration for life; man is not completely
born till he has passed through DEATH
Fanklin.
General observations drawn from par
ticultrs are the jewels of knowl ,dge,
comprchending great store in little
room.-Locke.
Grief is tattered tent. wherethrough
Gods light doth shine; who chances up
at every rent shall catch a ray divine
Lucy Larcom.
Those who seem to lead the public
taste are, in general. merely outrunning
it in the direction which it is spontane-
ously pursuing
Philosophy is the art and law of life
and it teaches US what to do in all cases.
and like good marksmen, to hit the white
at any distance.-Seneca
He was wise fellow, and had good
discretion, that, being bid to ask what
he would of the King, desired he might
know one of his secrets.-Shakespeare
Our nature is inseparable from desir es
and the very word desire-the craving
that our present felicity is not complete.
Hobbies.
Haste and rashness are storms and
tampests, breaking and wrecking bust
Int nj, 10 n f,,l1 foir mi
blowing it with speed to the heaven
Fuller.
To be able under all circumstances
to practice five things constitute perfect
virtue. These five are gravity, generosi-
ty of soul, sincerity, earnestness and
Kindness
The spirit worl ound this world Of
sense floats like an atmosphere, and ev-
erywhere watts thought those earthly
msts and vapors dense, vital breath
of more ethereal air.-Longfellow.
There is this difference between hap
piness and wisdom; he that thinks him
self the happiest man is really SO, but he
who thinks himself the wisest man is
usually the greatest fool.-Bacon.
Every great scientific truth goes
through these stages. First, people say it
conflicts with the Bible. Next, they say
it had been discovered before. Lastly,
they say they always believed it.-Agas-
sZ.
There remains in the faces of women
who are naturally serene and peaceful,
and of those rendered so by religion, an
aftef-spring, and later an after-sum-
mer the reflex of their most beautiful
bIoom.- Richter
| venerate old age; and love not the
man who can look without emotion upon
the sunset of life, when the dusk of ev
ening begins to gather over the watery
eye, and the shadows of twilight grow
broader and deeper upon the understand
ing.-Longfellow.
The wonders of life are not in deeds,
but in characters. Let me look into the
martyrs soul and see the perfect conse-
Grafton which is burning there, and
there is no wonder in my spirit when l
see him walking next day to the stake
as to festival.-Phillips Brooks.
Great knowledge, if it be without van
ity, is the most severe bride of the
tongue. For SO have heard that all
the noises and prating of the pool, the
croaking of frogs and toads, are hushed
and appeased upon the bringing upon
them the light of candle or torch
Fuller.
Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of
villainy; affection, part of the chosen
Atrappings of folly; the one completes
villain, the other finishes fop. Con-
tempt is the proper punishment of af
lection, and detestation the just conse-
quence of ypocrisy.-Johnson.
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