The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1894-02-01
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10 HOlu tny LOngue.-Layatef.
| Much bending breaks the bow much
unbending the mind-Bacon.
Riches exclude only one Inconvenience,
and that is poyerty.-Johnson.
He who is firm and resolute in wiz
molds the world to himself.-Goethe.
More things are wrought by prayer
than the world dreams of.-Tennyson.
Every generation of man is a laborer
for that which succeeds it-Gladsdstone.
Speak but little and well if you would
be esteemed man of merit.-Trench.
Set all things in their own peculiar
place, and know that order is the great-
est grace Dryden.
The great fact is, that life is service.
The only question is, "Whom will we
serve ?'-Faber.
The book to read is not the one that
thinks for you, but the one which makes
you think -McCosh.
Morn in the white wake of the mora
ing star, came furrowing all the orient
into gold.-Tennyson
Divines and dying men may talk Of
hell, but in my heart her several tor
ments dwell Shakespeare.
Be rather bountiful than expensive;
do good with what thou hast, or it Will
do thee no gOod-Penn
If you mean to keep as we'll as posi-
BILE the less you think about your health
the better-O. w. Holmes.
Our country's welfare is our first con-
Germ, and who promotes that best, best
proves his duty.-Harvard.
From lowest place, when virtuoas
things proceeds, the place is dignifiea
by the doer's deed.-Shakspeare.
Pride is vice, which pride itself la
c]ines every man to find in others, and
to overlook in himself-Johnson
This gives force to the strong, that the
multitude have no habit of self-Ieliance
or original acton.-Emerson.
The charities that soothe, and heal,
and bless, He scattered at the feet of
men like fowors-W Wordsworth.
If there is any person to whom yeu
feel dislike, that is the person of whom
you ought never to speak. Cecil
Sunday is like stile between the
fields of toll, where we can kneel and
pray or sit and mediate
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires
no motive outside of itself it only re-
quires opportunity.-Ge Eliot.
Rich rogues always fancy that their
children will inherit only the wealth and
none of the sin-Theo Winthrop.
Give boy address and accomplish
ments, and you give him the mastery of
palaces and fortunes where he goes
Emerson.
Rogues are always found out in some
way. Whoever is a wolf will act as
wolf that is the most certain of things.
-Fontaine.
True popularity is not the popularity
which is followed after, but the popu-
larity which follows after-Lord Mans
field
In activity we must find our joys as
as well as glory; and labor, like every
thing else that is good, is it's own reward.
e. P. Whipple.
Memory is the cabinet of imagination,
the treasury of reason, the registry of
conscience and the council chamber of
hought-Basil
Houses are built to live in, more thaM
to look on; therefore let use be preferred
before uniformity, except where both
may be Iad.-Bacon
We sometimes congratulate ourselves
at the moment of waking from troubled
dream; it may be so the moment after
eath.-Haw thorne.
The eliminating power of administga.
ton is to well know how much power,
great or small, we ought to use in all
es.-Montesqueiu.
Repartee is the highest order of wit,
as it bespeaks the coolest yet quickest
exercise of genius at moment when the
passions are aroused.-Colton.
Our sweet illusions only die, fulfilling
loves sure prophecy; and every wish for
better things an undreamed beauty
nearer brings
A helping word to one in trouble is
often like switch on railroad track
an inch between wreck and amooth-
rolling prosperity.-H. w. Beecher.
Remorse is a mans dread prerogativs.
Remorse, if we exclude the notion of
responsibility, is an enigma in human
nature never to be explained.-Isaas
Taylor.
The drafts which true genius draws
upon posterty, although they may not
always be honored as soon ashley are
due, are sure to be paid with compound
interest in the end.-Colton.
The greatest comfort of my old age,
and that which gives me the highest
satisfaction, is the pleasing remembrance
of the many benefits and friendly offices
l have done to others-Cato.
WISDOM valor, justice, and learning,
can. not keep man in countenance that
is possessed with these excellencies, if he
wants that inferior art of life and be-
havior, called good breeding. -Steeie.
In all disputes so much as these is of
passion, SO much there is of nothing to
the purpose; for then reason, like bad
hound, spends upon false scent, and
forsakes the question first started.-Sir
Thomas Browne.
The talent of success is nothing more
than doing what you can do well, and
doing we'll whatever you do without
thought of fame. If it comes at all it
will come because it is sought after