The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-06-15
GM IN PARvO.
j of the soul is everlasting.

VERSE may find him whom sermon
fiies.-George Herbert.
One sun by day, by night ten thous-
and shine-Edward Young.
Talk little and well and you will be
taken for somebody.-Portugu pro-
verb.
Fear manifested invites danger, con-
cealed towards insult known Ones
Chesterfield.
1t is but a base, ignoble mind that
mounts no higher than bird can soar.
Shakespeare.
The men who are always fortunate
can not easily have great reverence for
virtue.-Cicero.
Tranquil pleasures last the longest;
we are not fitted to bear the burden OF
great joys.-Bovee.
We are not sent into this world to do
anything into which we can not put our
hearts.-RuskIn.
The great difficulty about making
verses is to know when you have made
good ones.-Johnson.
A word or nod from the good has
more weight than the eloquent speech
of others.-Plutarch.
Napolen had been the first man of the
world if his ends had been purely pub
lic.-Emerson.
/ would rather see these flowers [dan>
delionsl in the world beyond than the
golden streets we are told of.-Whittier.
The golden age never leaves the world
it exists still, and shall exist, till love,
health and poetry are no more.-Bulwer.
wonder why it is we are not all kin
der then we are. How easily it is done.
How instantaneously it acts. How
infalibly it is mbered.-Drummo nd
The gate of heaven is love; there is no
other. When generous act blooms from
unselfish thought the Lord is with us.
Nothing can be SO quick and sudden
as the operations of the mind, especially
when hope or fear or jealousy, to which
the two others are but journeymen, set
to work.-Fielding.
1t is remarkable how virtuous and
generously disposed every one is at a
play We uniformly applaud what is
right, and condemn what is wrong, when
it costs us nothing but sentiment.-Haz-
lit.
Take my advice and never draw carl
cature. By the long practice OF it have
lost the enjoyment Of beauty. l never
see face but distorted, and never have
the satisfaction to behold the human
face divine.-Hogarth.
Nature gives to every time and season
some beauties of it's own; and from
morning to night, as from the cradle tC
the grave, is but a succession of changes
SO gentle and easy that we can scarcely
mark their progress.-Dickens.
when you Ildke IL IulSUdko uOu IOOh
back at it long. Take the reason of the
thing into your mind and then look for
ward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom
The past can not be changed. The flu
ture is yet in your power.-Hugh White
When great merchant of Liverpool
was asked by what means he had con-
trived to realize the large fortune h
possessed, his reply was: "By one ar
ticle alone, in which thou mayest deal
too, if thou pleasest-it is civility."-
Bently.
Either society has laws or it has not. Ii il
has not, there can be no order, no Ger
tainty, no system in its phenomena.
it has, then they are a like the other law
of the universe, sure, inf1exible, eve
active, and having no exception.-Her-
bert Spencer.
The wisdom of nations lies in thei
proverbs, which are brief and pithy
Collect and learn them; they are notable
measures and directions for human life
you have much in little; they save TIM
in speaking, and upon occasion may be
the fullest and safest answers.-Penn.