San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-12
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sure as the voice. Tancred.
Real philosophy seeks rather to
solve than to deny Bulwer.
Success at first doth many times
undo men at last Nenning.
The superior man is slow in his
words and earnest in his conduct
TConfucius.
Happy are they that hear their
detractiOns and can put them to
mending.-[ Shakespeare.
The deepest tenderness a woman
can show to a man is to help him
to do his duty MulOck.
He who gives himself airs of i'm
portance exhibits the credentials
of impotence avater.
1t is by attempting to reach the
top at a single leap that so much
misery is caused in the world
Cobbett.
Fhe difficult part of a good tenn
per consists in fOrbearance, and ac-
commOdation to the i'll humOr of
others Empson. H.
Thought is the first faculty of
man; to express it is one of his
first desires; to spread it, his dear
est privilege Raynal.
As riches and favor fOrsake a
man, we discover him to be fool,
but nobody could find it out in his
prosperity- Bruyere.
The strength of man sinks in the
hour of trial, but there doth live
power that to the battle girdeth the
weak Joanna Baillie.
The strength of nation, especi-
ally of a republican nation, is in
the intelligent and well-Ordered
homes of the people, Mrs. Sigour-
ney.
If he does really think there is
no distinction between Virture and
vice, why, sir, when he leaves our
house let us count our spoons
johnson.
We prepare ourselves for sudden
deeds by the reiterated choice Of
good or evil, which gradually de-
termines character George Eliot.
Her head was bare but for her
native ornament of hair, which in
a simple knot was tied sweet neg
ligence-unheeded bait of love-
dryden.
AS the language of the face is
universal, so It's very cOmprehen-
sive; it's the shorthand of the
mind, and crowds a great deal in a
little ROOM Jeremy Collier.
There is always room for man
of force, and he makes room for
many. Society is d troop of think
ers, and the best heads among them
take the best places Emerson.
Even for the dead | will not bind
my soul to grief. Death cannot
long divide, for is it not, as if the
rose that climbed my garden wall
had blOOmed the other side Alice
Cary.
Sincerity is like travelling on a
plan, beaten road, which commonly
brings a man sooner to his jour
htN tnNl IMAM W way - Ill " IlNn
men often lose themselves.-[T ilOt-
son.
The avariciOuS man is like the
barren, sandy ground of the desert,
which sucks in all the rain and
dew with greediness, but yields no
fruitful herbs or plants for the ben
eft of others ZenO.
No truth has been established
without martyrs, save, those that
are taught by Euclid. One per-
suades by ones sufferidgs. st. Paul
said, "Believe me, for | am often in
prisOn."-[Paul Louis Currier.
Man is in quest of truth, is in
perpleXity about it; he was Great
ed in it, and for it, for none can
seek for anything but that which
is lost, is wanted, nor could one
form the least idea of it, but be-
cause it has belonged to him and
ought to be his William Law.
Improvement depends far less
upon length of tasks and hours of
application than is supposed. Chill
dren can take in but little each
day, they are like vases with a
narrow neck; you may pour little
or pour much, but much will not
enter at time Michelet.
The true-that is the souls ma
tural state. We feel it by the in
finite sweetness, the expanding of
our whole being, when surrounded
by persons who are true and
straightforward. We feel it by
the dreadful discomfort which we