The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1893-02-16
Multum in Parvo.
aal thy domestic ills.-Thales.

II uulOr is the IHoou VI gou.-COfCytc
Power, to its last particle. is duty
John Foster
Shame is natures hasty conscience
Maria Edge,oorth.
Politics is the science of exigeneies.-
Theodore Pa7her.
/ was!ei time, AM now doth time
waste me- Shakespeare.
Where there is shame there may in
time be virtuA.-Jotnson 70.
The vain regret that steals above the |
wreck of squandered hours Whittier
For any man to match above his rank |
is bnt to sell his liberty. Messinyer.
Whatever creed bA Taught or land be |
trod, mans conscience is the oracle !
of God.-Byron.
We tell our triumphs to the crowd, |
but our hearts are the sole confidapts of
our sorrows.-Btl9Oer.
/ will chlde no breather in the world !
except IufSell, dSHiust Wiloiii hho"
most faults.-Shakspeare
Opportunity to statesmen is AS the
Just degree of heat TO chemists; it per-
fects all the work. SitcklinG.
After spirit of discernment; the next
rarest things in the world are diamonds
and pearls. -BrMyefe.
Man himself is the browning wonder
of creation; the study of his nature the
noblest study the world affords. -Gldd
stone.
He who reforms himself has done more
toward reforming the public than
crowd of noisy, ilnpotent patriots Lao
ater
The style shows the man. Wheth-
er in speaking or writing, a gentlemen is
always known by his style.-From the
Latin.
Kind words produce their own image
in mems souls; and beautiful image it
is. They sootlIe and quiet and comfort
the hearer.-Pdsc0l.
Mankind are more indebted to indus
try than ingenuity; the gods SET up their
favors at a price, and industry is the
purchaser.-A ddison.
Wit is more necessary than beauty.
and | think no woman ugly who has it,
and no handsome women agreeable with
( ont it, Wycaerly.
Lost wealth may he replaced by indus
try, lost knowledge by study, lost health
by tenn .,erance or medicine, but lost
time is gone forever-.Smiies
The best rules of rhetoric are To speak
inteligently; speak from the heart; have
something to say: say it. and stop when
you'v done.-Ifyon Edaoards.
To father waxing old nothing is
dearar than Il daughter. Sons have
spirits of 4 high pitch, but less inclined
to sweet, endearing fondness.-Euri-
pades.
Nothing is so easy as to deceive ON
self. for what we wish we readily believe,
but such expectations are often incon
sistent with the reality of t.lings.-Dem
oSthenes
The idiot. the Indian, the child and
the unschooled farmers boy stand nearer
to the light by which nature is TO be
read than the dissector or the antiquary
Emerson.
| restrict myself within bounds in say
ing that. so far as | have observed in
this life, ten men have failed from defect
in morals where one has failed from de
feet in intellect - Horace Mal91.
Enjoy the blessings of the day, if God
sends them. and the evils bear patiently
and sweetly, for this day only is onrs;
we are dead to yesterday. and not born
IL to-morrow-Jer Taylor.
Falsehood is in hnrrah; it may be at
any mo nent detected and punished;
truth is calm, serene; its Judgment is on
high: its king cometil ont of the cham
bers of eternity.-Joseph Parker.
The student has his. Rome, his Flor
ence, his whole glowing Italy, within
the four walls of his library. He has in
JUS DOON iEC uIHc VI III flhet1tC WIN,
and the glories of a modern one.-L0ng
.fellop.
II the loving, closed heart of goo d
woman shonld open before man. | ow
much controlled tenderness, how many
veiied sacrifices and dninb virtues would
he see reposing lerin-Richter.
Let grac and goodness be the pri'ci-
pal ioadstone of thy affections. For love
which hath ends will have an end; where
as that which is founded on true vir ue
will always continue.-Dryden.
Besides the general infusion of wit to
heighten civility, the direct sllendor of
intellectual power is ever welcome in
fae society as the costliest addition to
IFS rule aud its credit.-Enersoal
Let parents who hate their offspring
~ II them to hate labor and to inherit
riches, and before long they will be
stung by every vice, racked by every
poison and damned by it's penalty.-H.
W. Beecher.
II ever this free people, if this Govern
eminent itself is ever utterly demoral>
iz-d it will come from this incessant
human wriggle and struggle for office.
which is but way live without work.
--4brGhGm Lincoln.
To nice ear the quality of voice
is singularly affecting. It's depth seems
to be allied to feeling; at least the con
tralto notes alone give an adequate sense
OF pathos They are born near the
heart.-ItGckerD1d7a.
The strongest passions allow us some
rest, but vanity keeps us perpetnally in
motion. What dust do | raise! says
he fly upon the coach-wheel And at
what a rate do drive. says the fly upon
the horse back.-SDift.