The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-06-22
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Mammon is the largest Shareholder in
the world.-F Saunders
Magnificent promises are always to be
suspected -Theodore Parker.
There never has been a mean man and
at the same time virtuous.-Confucius
Physic :is, for the most part, only
substitute for temperance and exercises.
Addison.
Most people would succeed in slnalt
things if they were not troubled by grea
bitions.-Longfellow.
The great thing in this world is not so
much where we are but in what direc-
ton we are moving.-O. w. Holmes
What can we see in the longest kingly
line in Europe, save that it runs back to
a successful soldier?-Walter Scott.
The truest experience is to answer
right out when you are asked; the best
prudence is not to be coward.-New-
man.
Voltaire had the eye of lyl saw
deeper at first glance than any other
man, but no second glance was given
Carlyle.
feel no care of coin, we'll doing is my
wealth; my mind to me an empire is,
while grace affordeth health.-South-
well.
Who knows himself braggart, let
him fear this; for it will come to pass
that braggart shall be found an ass
Shakespeare.
In common souls hope is but vauge
and underlined, till from the poets
tongue the message rolls, blessing to
his king.-Lowell.
No women can be handsome by the
force of features alone, any more than
she can be witty by only the help of
speech.-Hughes.
Idleness is the gate of all harms. An
idle man is like house that has no
walls; the devils may enter on very side
-Chaucer
Greatness stands upon a precipice
and if prosperity carries man ever SO
little beyond his poise it overbears and,
dashes him to pieces.-Seneca.
Rage is essentially vulgar, and never
more vulgar than when it proceeds from
mortified pride, disappointed ambition
or thwarted willfulness.-H. Coleridge.
There is bodness, a spirit of daring
in religious reformers not to be measur-
ed by the general rules which control
mems purposes and actions.-Daniel
Webster.
That past which is so presumptuously
brought forward as precedent for the
present was itself founded on some past
that went before it.-Mme de Stael.
Zeal for the public good is the charac>
terstic of man of honor and a gen
tleman, and must take the place of
pleasures, profits and all other gratifica-
tions-Steele.
A good book, in the language of the
book sellers, is a salable one; in that
of the curious a scarce one; in that of
men of sense, useful and instructive
one.-Chamb ers
He who hath battled with poverty and
hard toll will be found stronger and more
expert than he who could stay at home
from the battle, concealed among the
provision wagons, or unwatchfully abid-
ing by the stuff.-Carlyle
Each heart is world. You find all
within yourself that you find without.
To know yourself you have only to set
down a true statement of those that
ever loved Or hated you.-Lavater.
There are treasures laid up in the
heart-treasures of charity, piety, tenn
perance and soberness. These treasures
man takes within him beyond death
when he leaves this world.-Buddhist
Scriptures.
Takers and futile persons are com
monty vain and credulous withal, for he
that talketh what he knoweth will also
talk what he knoweth not; therefore set
it down that a habit of secrecy is both
polite and moral.-Bacon.
LII tIlC WhOlO yOdi, ouiA-
mer, fall of the leaf and winter; and in
one day. morning, noontime and even
tide, altereth the course of the weather,
the pith of the. bow, the strength of man.
Roger Ascham.
Melancholy, or low spirits, is that hys-
terical passion which forces unbidden
sighs and tears. 1t falls upon a content
ed life like drop of ink on white paper
which is not the less a stain that it car
ries no meaning with it.-Lockhart
Give him gold enough, and marry him
to a puppet, or an aglet baby, or an old
trot with meier a tooth in her head,
though she have as many diseases as two
and fifty horses why, nothing comes
amiss, SO money comes withal.-Shake>
spear.
man that only translates shall never
be poet nor painter, that only cop
les; nor swimmer, that swims always
with bladders; SO people that trust
wholly to Others charity, and without
industry of their own, will always be
poor.-Sir w. Temple.
We never find the Scriptures cons
mending any prodigal but one, and him
only for ceasing to be SO. His prodigali
ty brought him to the swine, and their
trough, and from initiating their sensu-
ality, by natural consequence, to take
UP with their diet, too.-South.
Read not books alone, but men, and
among them chiefly thyself. If thou find
anything questionable there, use the
commentary of a severe friend rather
than the gloss of a sweet-lipped fiatterer;
there is more profit in a distasteful truth
than in deceitful sweetness.-Q uaries.
There are two kinds of bashfulness !;
one, the awkwardness of the BOBBY,