The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-05-04
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PURPOSE. -DlSIcatil
do pity unlearned gentlemen on q
rainy ay.-Falkland.
> The secret of education lies in respect
ing the pupl.-Emerson.
He who knows only his own side Of
the case knows little of that Stuart
Mill
Fear the boisterous savage of passion
less than the sedately grinning william.
-Lavater.
The strength of the donkey mind lies
in adopting a course inversely as the ar
guments urged. Eliot.
When the soul resolves to perform
every duty, Immediately it is conscious
of the presence of God.-Bacon.
We must never undervalue any per-
SON. The workman loves not to have
his work despised in his presence.-De
Sales.
OF the whole sum of human life no
small part is that which consists of a
mans relations to his country, and his
feelings concerning it.-GladstOne.
1t is with diseases of the mind as with
those of the body, we are half dead be-
fore we understand our disorder, and
half cured when we do.-ColtOn.
Through every rift of discovery some
seeming anomaly drops out of the dark
ness. and falls, as golden link, into the
great chain of order.-E. H. Chaplin.
A priest is comely if he be lean; a four
footed beast is comeIy when he is fat;
man becometh comely when he is wise,
and a women when she hath a husband.
From the Burmese
Dissipation is absolutely a labor when
the round of Vanity Fair has once been
made; but fashion makes US think light
~ of toll, and we describe the circle as
mechanically as horse in a mill.-Zim-
norman.
You may be invited to ball or din
ner because you dance Or tell good
story; but no one since the time of Queen
Elizabeth has been made a Cabinet Min
lister or a Lord Chancellor for such rea-
sons.-E. Pierpoint.
The worst things are perversions of
good things. Abused intellectual gifts
make the dangerous villain; abused sen
sibilities make the accomplished temp
ter; abused affections engender the
keenest of all misery.-James McCosh.
Repetition is the mother not only of
study, but also of education. Like the
fresco painter, the teacher lays colors on
the wet plaster, which ever fade away.
and which he must ever renew until they
remain and shine brightly.-Jean Paul
Richter.
Mature affection, homage, devotion,
does not easily express itself. Its voice
is low. 1t is modest and retiring; it lays
in ambush and waits. Such is the ma
ture fruit. Sometimes life glides away,
and finds it ripening in the shade. The
light inclinations of very young people
are as dust compared to rocks Dickens.
When l reflect, as l frequently do, up
on the facility l have enjoyed, | some-
times say to myself that, were the offer
made me, l would engage to run again.
from beginning to end, the same career
of life. All would ask should be the
privilege of author to correct in a second
edition, certain errors of the first
Franklin.
A tutor should not be continually
laundering instructions into the ears OF
his pupil, as if he were pouring it through
d. funnel, but induce him to think, to
distinguish, and to find out things for
himself; sometimes paving the way at
other times leaving it for him to open
and SO accommodate his precepts to the
capacity of his pupil Eontaigue.
Genuine and innocent wit is surely the
flavor of the mind. Man could not di-
rect his way by plain reason, and sup
port his life by tasteless food; but God
has given us wit, and flavor, and bright
ness, and laughter, and perfumes, to en-
liyen the days of mans pilgrimage
and to charm his panied steps over the
burning marl.-Sidpey Smith.
Advice and apprehension require the
utmost delicacy; painful truths should
be delivered in the softest terms. and ex-
pressed no further than is necessary to
produce their due effect. courteous
man will mix what is conciliating with
what is offensive; praise with censure
Difference and respect with the authority
of admonition, SO far as can be done il
consistence with probity and honor
Percevil.
America has proven that it is practi,
cable to elevate the mass of mankind
the laboring or lower classic raise them
to self-respect, to make them competent
to act part in the great right and the
great duty of self government and she
has proved that this may be done by
education and the defusion of knowl
edge. She holds out an example a
thousand times more encouraging than
ever was presented before to those
nine -tenths of the human race who are
born without hereditary fortune or her
editary rank.-Daniel Webster.
1t is a delicious moment, certainly
that of being well nestled in bed, and
feeling that you shall drop gently to
sleep. The good is to come, not past
the limbs are tired enough to render the
remaining in one posture delightful; the
labor of the day is gone. A gentle fail
ure OF the perceptions creeps over you;
the spirit of consciousness disengages
itself once more, and with slow and
hushipg degrees, like mother detach,
ing her hand from that of a sleeping
child, the mind seems to have balmy
lid closed over it, like the eye-it is closed
the mysterious spirit has gone to take
it's airy rounds.-Leigh Hunt.
The whole commerce between master
and slave is perpetual exercise of the
most boisterous passions; the most I'M
RENTING despotism on the one part,
and degrading submission on the other.
The man must be a prodigy who can re-
tain his manners and morals undeprayed