The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-08-27
BEAUTIFUL THOUGHTS.

Music washes away from the soul the dust
OF everyday life.-Auerbach.
You, having a large and fruitful mind.
should not so much labor what to speak as
10 ind what to leaye unspoken. Rich soils
are often to be weeded.-Bacon TO Coke.
There lie nothing holier in this life OF ours
than the frst consciousness Of love--the hrst
futterirg Of its silken winss-the first rising
sound and breath OF that wind which is SO
soon to sweep through the soul. to purify or
to NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Despise not any man. and do not spurn any
thing: for there is no man who hath not his
hour. nor is there anything that has not Its
piace-Rabbi Ben Azai.
How little do they see what Is who frame
their hasty judgment upon that which seems
southey.
All the world. all that We are. and all that
we have. our bodies and our souls, our actions
| and our sufferings, our conditions at home,
our accidents abroad, our many sins and our
seldom virtues. are SO many arguments to
make our souls dwell low in the valley OF
humility Taylor.
| The discovery OF what Is true and the prae-
| tice Of that which Is good are the two most
| important objects OF philosophy. -Voltsire
| Patience Is the support Of weakness; i'm
| patience is the ruin OF strength. Cotton.
| AS the snow gathers together go our habits
| are formed. No single fake that is added to
the pile produces a sensible change; no single
action creates however II may exhibit, 9
mans characters but as the tempest hurts the
avalanche down the mountain, and over
whelms the inhabitant and his hahitation. Sc
passion, acting upon the elements of mischief
which pernieious habits have brought to-
gether by lmperceptible accumulation. may
/ overthrow the edifce OF truth and virtue
Bentham.
A politician weakly and amiably right is Mt
match for politician teuaeiously and pug
naciously In the wrong.-E. P. Whippls.
The greatest results in life are usually at
tanned by single means and the exercise o
ordinary qualities. These may for the mos
part be summed up in these two-commo
sense and Observation-Disclosures.
!, The majority have 10 other reason for thei
opinions than that they are the fashion-John
son.
In old days there were angels who cam
and took men by the hand and led them ava
q from the city of destruction We see no white
winged angels now. But yet men are lie
o away from threatening destruction han
a is nut into theirs which leads them fort
$ gently toward calm. bright land, so tn
n they look no more backward; and the han
e may be little child 's.-George Eliot.
n The man who can not be Christian In tt
It place where be is can not be Christian an!
1t where-Beecher.
IT Silence is the element In which great thini
= fashion themselves together: that at leng'
J. they may emerge, Uniformed and maiesti
l. into the daylight of life. which they g.
: thencetorth to rule.-Carlyle.
to The eagle suffers little birds to sing.
lie Shakespeare.
"Philistine' must have originally meant
the minds OF those who invented the ME
in name strong. dogged. unenltshtened opp
r nent of the children OF the light-Heine
Judges are but men. and are swayed. III
other men, by vehement prejudces.-Dav
:, Dudley Field.
- To attain excellence in society an asser
blaze Of qualifications is requisite; discipiin
:, intellect, to think clearly, and to clot
thought with propriety and elegance; know
/. edge of human nature TO suit, subject
character: true politeness to prevent givi
"a pain; a deep sense OF morality. to preser
nj the dignity OF speech, and spirit OF oene'
=. leuce, to neutralize its asperities and sancti
M its powers.-Mrs. Sigcurney
Come and take choice OF all my hora
and so beguile thy acknowledgements
in We never can say why we love, eui OF
u that we love. The heart is ready enough
%; feigning excuses for all that 1t does or
AGNES Of wrong; but ask 1t to give rea'
lid for any of its beautiful and divine moti'
he and it can only look upward and be dumb
ed Lowell.
Or No nation can be destroyed while IT p
,at sesses good home life.-J. G. Holland.
mr. Every year OF my life grow more CT
WINGED that it is wisest and best TO fl
attention on the beautiful and the good.
a dwell as little as possible on the evil q
nd fslse-Cecii.