The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1894-03-01
IRGINIA, THURSDAY, MARCH l, 1894.
CLIFTON FORGE, VA.
MULTUM IN PARVO.

wrong-Dryden.
When the judgment is weak the pre-
judice is strong. -O'Hara.
| The meek enjoy almost perpetual
Sabbath.-M. Henry.
| No one who can not master himself il
worthy to rule.-Goethe.
The greatest misfortunes men fal
into arise from themselves. Steele
Worth begets, in base minds, envy; il
great souls emulation.-Fi Fielding.
In manners tranquility is the supreme
! power-Mme. de Maintenon.
| At a touch sweet Pleasure melteth, like
to bubbles when rain pelteth.-Keats.
The foundation of domestic happiness
is faith in the virtue of woman.-Landor
Education is our only political safety
Outside of this ark all is deluge.-H
Mann.
l have lived to thank God that all my
prayers have not been answered. jean
| Ingelow.
1t is but a poor eloquence which only
shows that the orator can talk.--Sil
Joshua Reynolds.
Oh, what authority and show OF truth
can cunning sin cover itself withal.-
Shakespeare.
All other knowledge is hurtful to him
who has not honesty and good nature
Montague.
AS the Greek said, many men know
how to fiatter; few know to praise. -
Wendell Phillips.
WEAKNESS can snore upon the flint
when FESTIVE sloth finds the downy pillow
hard. Shakespeare.
Unless a tree has borne blossom in
spring, you will vainly look for fruit on
| it in the autumn.-Hare.
A face that can not smile is like bud
that can not blossom, which dries up on
the stalk.-H. w. Beecher.
| Do not wait for extraordinary Gil.
cumstances to good actions; try to use
ordinary situations. Richter.
| | choose the nobler part of Emerson,
when, after various disenchantments, he
exclaims, 81 covet truth. "-Tyndall.
| He that delighteth in and scorneth
in and scorneth the misery of another
| shall one time or other fall into it him
self.-Sir W. Raleigh.
| Stretched on the rack of a too easy
| chair, and heard thy everlasting yawn
confess the pains and penalties of idle
ness.-Pope.
1t is not their long reigns, nor their
frequnt changes, which occasion the fall
OF empires, but their abuse OF power
Crabbe.
The means heaven yields must be EN-.
braced, and not neglected. else, if heaven
would, and we will not, heavens offer we
Observation-Disclosures.
Authorship, according to the spirit in
which it is pursued, is an infancy, a
pastime, labor, a handicraft, an art, a
science or a 'yirtura.-Schlege
! This is law of benefits between men;
the one ought to forget at once what he
has given, and the other ought never to
forget what he has received.-S
In conversation use some, but not too
much, ceremony; it teaches others to be
courteous, too. Demeanors are com
monty paid back in their own coin.-
Fuller.
Ii the devil ever laughs it must be at
hypocrites they are the greatest dupes
he has; they serve him better than any
others, but receive no wages; nay. what
is still more extraordinary, they submit
to greater notifications to go to hell
than the sincerest Christian to 90 to
heaven.-Colton.
Temples have their images; and we
see what influence they have always had
over great part of mankind. But, in
truth, the ideas and images in mems
minds are the invisible powers that
constantly govern them; and to these
they all pay universally ready submits
sion.-Joanathan Edwards.
We think very little of time present; we
anticipate the future as being too slow,
and with view to hasten it onward,
we recall the past to stay it as too swift
ly gone. We are SO thoughtless that we
thus wander through the hours which
are not here, regardless only of the
moment that is actually our own.-
Pascal
No man can pass into eternity, for he
is already in it. The dead are no more
in eternity now than they always were,
or than every one of us is at this mo-
ment. We may ignore that things
eternal; shut our eyes hard on them;
live as though they had no existence,
nevertheless eternity is around us here,
at this moment, at all moments.-Canon
Farrar.