The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-11-15
MULTUM IN PAREO.

The virtue lies in the struggle, not In the
priZe.-Milnes.
No man can pass into eternity, for he lS
| already In it.-Farrar.
A heap of ill-chosen erudition Is but the
| luggage of antiquity.
Men should not talk to please them
selves, but those that hear tnem.-Sterne.
| Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks IN
visible, except to God alone.-Milton.
l would have q man great In great
things and elegant in little things.-John-
son.
Thought Is the blossom; language the
opening bud; action the fruit behind It,
Beecher.
You cram these words into mine ears
against the stomach OF my sense.-Shak-
| speare.
Great minds must be ready not only 10
take opportunities, but to make them.-
Cotton.
Every great writer is writer of history.
let him treat on what subject he may
Landor
The friendships of the world are oft
confsderacies in vice. or leagues OF pleas
ure.-Addison.
Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks
to the murderer like the voice of solitude
-Maturin.
Every base occupation makes one sharp
Sir p. Sidney.
An intelligent class can scarce ever be,
as a class, vicious. and never as class,
acknowledgements.
Nothing can constitute good breeding
which has not good nature for its founda-
| tion.-Bulwer.
Hope is like the sun. which. as we jou.-
ney toward II, casts the shadow OF our
burden behind us.-S. Smiles.
Like man to double business bound,
stand in pause where l shall first begin.
and both neglect.-Shakspqare
knowledge dwells in he/ds replete with
thoughts Of other men: ylsdom, in minds
attentive to their own. <Cowper.
Nature is an Aeoli;sI. harp, musical In
strument, whose tones are the re-echo of
higher strings within us.-Novalis.
A strenuous soul hates cheap success: 1t
is the ardor of the assailant that makes
the vigor Of the defendant.-Emerson.
He that fortells his own calSnity, and
makes events before them come, doth
twice endure the pains of evil destiny
Davenant.
If we steal from the moderns it will be
cried down as plagiarism; If from the an
clients. 1t will be cried up as erudition.-
Cotton.
Those who attain to any excellence COM
monty spend life In some single pursuit,
for excellence is not often gained on
easier terms.-Johnson.
One principal reason why men are so
often useless is, that they divide and shift
their attention among multiplicity of
objects and dpursuits.-Emmons.
When infinite wisdom established the
rule of right and honesty. He saw to 1t
that justice should be always the high
est expediency.-W Wendell Phillips.
1t Is poor and disgraceful thing not to
be able to reply, with some degree Of GER
tainty, to the simple questions, what
will you be? What will you do?"-John
Foster.
There is no work of genius which has
not been the delight Of mankind; no word
of genius to which the human heart and
soul have not, sooner or later. responded.
Lowell.
There is nothing in life so irrational that
good sense and chance may not set II TO
rights; nothing so rational that folly and
chance may not utterly confound It,
Goethe.
The world is a great system of work;
the same duty Is not laid upon every one;
but upon every one. Is laid the duty to
feel as the brother of his fellow men,
From the German.
There is this difference between happi-
ness and wisdom, that he who thinks him
self the happiest man. really is so but
he that thinks himself the wisest, Is gen.
orally the greatest fool.-Colton.
Every man deems that he has precisely
the trials and temptations which are the
hardest of all others for him to bear; but
they are so simply because they are the
very. ones he most needs.-Mrs. l.. NJ
Childs.
1t is the age that forms the man. not
the man that forms the age. Great minds
do indeed react on the society which has
made them what they are, but they only
pay without interest what they have re-
Memory depends very much on the per.
spicuity, regularity and order Of our
thoughts. Many complain of the want Of
memory. when the defect is in their .tudg-
ment; and others, by grasping at ALL re-
tain nOthing.-Fuller.
The world Of reality has Its limits; the
world of Imagination Is boundless. Not
being able to enlarge the one, let US con-
tract the other; for II Is from their differ
ence that all the evils arise which render
us unhappy.-Rousseau.
How often have / seen the most solid
merit and knowledge neglected. unwel-
come and soon rejected, while fiimsy
parts. little knowledge, ard less merit,
introduced by the. Graces, have been re-
ceived, cherished and admired.-Chester-
field.
There's no music in "rest." but there's
the making Of music in 1t. And people are
always missing that part of the life mel
ody, always talking Of perseverance and
courage and fortitude; but patience Is the
finest and worthest part Of fortitude, and
the rarest too.-Ruskin.
Condemn no man for not thinking as you
think. Let every one enjoy the full and
free liberty Of thinking for himself. Let
every man use his own judgment, since
every man must give an account Of him.
self to God. If you can not persuade
man into the truth, never attempt to force
a man into It, II love will not compel
him to come, leave him to God, the Judge
Of all.-John Wesley. a.,s..t
Winter Is on my head and eternal spring
Is In my heart. The nearer approach the
end the palmer hear around me the i'm
mortal symphonies Of the worlds which
invite me. For half q century have been